M. cinnamomea M. fragrans M. murashkinskyi M. rhinocephala M. tawa 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.

[1] 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.