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]