| Scopuloides | |
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| | |
| Scopuloides rimosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Meruliaceae |
| Genus: | Scopuloides (Massee) Höhn. & Litsch. (1908) [1] |
| Type species | |
| Peniophora hydnoides Cooke & Massee (1888) | |
Scopuloides is a genus of five species of crust fungi in the family Meruliaceae.
Scopuloides was first proposed by George Edward Massee in 1890 as a subgenus of Peniophora , [2] then raised to generic status by Franz von Höhnel and Viktor Litschauer in their 1908 work on Austrian crust fungi. [1] Kurt Hjorstam and Leif Ryvarden suggested that the genus was not published validly, [3] but it was accepted as valid by other authorities. [4] [5]