Metuloidea is a genus of five species of fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by New Zealand-based mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1965. The type species is M. tawa, a fungus originally described by Cunningham as a species of Trametes.[2] Formerly classified in family Meruliaceae, Metuloidea was moved to the Steccherinaceae in 2016,[3] following prior research that outlined a revised framework for the Steccherinaceae based on molecular phylogenetics.[1]
| Metuloidea | |
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| Metuloidea reniformis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Steccherinaceae |
| Genus: | Metuloidea G.Cunn. (1965) |
| Type species | |
| Metuloidea tawa | |
| Species | |
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M. cinnamomea | |
Description edit
Metuloidea contains fungi that produce poroid or hydnoid fruit bodies that are brown and have a sweet odour. It features a dimitic hyphal system with branched, relatively wide skeletal hyphae (3–5 μm). The spores are ellipsoid to cylindrical, thin walled, and measure 3–4 by 2–2.8 μm.[3]
Species edit
- Metuloidea cinnamomea (Iturr. & Ryvarden) Miettinen & Ryvarden (2016)
- Metuloidea fragrans (A.David & Tortic) Miettinen (2016)
- Metuloidea murashkinskyi (Burt) Miettinen & Spirin (2016)
- Metuloidea reniformis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Westphalen & Motato-Vásq. (2021)
- Metuloidea rhinocephala (Berk.) Miettinen (2016)
- Metuloidea tawa (G.Cunn.) G.Cunn. (1965) – New Zealand; Australia
References edit
- ^ a b Miettinen, Otto; Larsson, Ellen; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Larsson, Karl-Henrik (2012). "Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Cladistics. 28 (3): 251–270. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x. PMID 34872189.
- ^ Cunningham, G.H. (1965). "Polyporaceae of New Zealand". Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Industrial Research. 164: 263.
- ^ a b Miettinen, Otto; Ryvarden, Leif (2016). "Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 157–172. doi:10.5735/085.053.0403.