Resupinatus is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of fungi in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Tricholomataceae

Tricholomataceae

The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. A classic "wastebasket taxon", the Tricholomataceae is inclusive of any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to the Amanitaceae, Lepiotaceae, Hygrophoraceae,...

. Species are saprobic, and often found growing on the underside of decaying wood. The generic name is derived from the Latin resupin (bent back, inverted).

Description

Species in this genus have small fruiting bodies, typically less than 1.5 cm in diameter. Basidiocarp

Basidiocarp

In fungi, a basidiocarp, basidiome or basidioma , is the sporocarp of a basidiomycete, the multicellular structure on which the spore-producing hymenium is borne. Basidiocarps are characteristic of the hymenomycetes; rusts and smuts do not produce such structures...

s are pleurotoid

Pleurotoid fungi

Gilled fungi with laterally-attached fruiting bodies are said to be pleurotoid . Pleurotoid fungi are typically wood-decay fungi and are found on dead and dying trees and coarse woody debris...

 in shape, meaning they have a reduced stem, and a flattened cap that is kidney-shaped when viewed from above. Gills are well-developed and radiate outwards from an off-center point of origin.

Species list

• Resupinatus alboniger
• Resupinatus algidus var. dendrocystis
• Resupinatus applicatus
  Resupinatus applicatus
  Resupinatus applicatus, commonly known as the smoked oysterling or the black jelly oyster, is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Resupinatus...
  
  

The "smoked oysterling"

• Resupinatus graminum
• Resupinatus kavinii
• Resupinatus leightonii

Contains bioactive compounds with cytotoxic activity.

• Resupinatus physaroides
• Resupinatus poriaeformis
• Resupinatus porosus
• Resupinatus striatulus
• Resupinatus trichotis

This species is characterized by thick, rigid hairs at the center of the pileus.

• Resupinatus unguicularis

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