Stereopsis (fungus)

Stereopsis
Stereopsis humphreyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Stereopsidales
Family:
Stereopsidaceae

Sjökvist, E.Larss., Pfeil & K.H.Larss. (2013)
Genus:
Stereopsis

D.A.Reid (1965)
Type species
Stereopsis radicans
(Berk.) D.A.Reid (1965)

Stereopsis is the sole genus of fungi in the family Stereopsidaceae.[1] The genus was formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae in the order Polyporales but was found to belong in its own order along with the genus Clavulicium.[1] Stereopsis was circumscribed by English mycologist Derek Reid in 1965.[2] It contains species that form funnel-shaped basidiocarps as well as the corticioid species Stereopsis globosa which was formerly considered a species of Clavulicium.[1] The species Stereopsis humphreyi and Stereopsis vitellina were found to belong in the Agaricales and Atheliales respectively in a molecular phylogenetics study, and because of this do not belong in Stereopsis, but they have not yet been transferred to their own genera.[1]

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