
Family Amylocorticiaceae
This family has nine genera, and about seventy species. It appears to be the sister group to the Agaricales (Binder et al. 2010).
Fruiting bodies are diverse with crustose to stereoid forms with a hymenium that is smooth, merulioid, wrinkled, poroid, or toothed. The strange pagoda fungus
, Podoserpula, is also in this group. Most members are saprobes, with either brown rot or white rot, but a few are plant pathogens.
crimped gillPlicaturopsis can be found in the Midwest and elsewhere.
- Amyloathelia
- Amylocorticiellum
- Amylocorticium
- Amyloxenasma
- Anomoloma
- Anomoporia
- Ceraceomyces
- Irpicodon
- Plicaturopsis (P. crispa)
- Podoserpula
- Serpulomyces
Additional species require generic transfers from Atheliaceae:
- Athelia rolfsii
- Athelopsis lacerata
- Leptosporomyces septentrionalis
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Amylocorticiaceae , Bibliotheca Mycologica 85: 354 (1982). Type: Amylocorticium Pouzar 1959.
- Taxonomy
- The genera require major revision and species need to be transferred. For example, the Athelia genus in the strict sense is in the Atheliales.
- Related links
- Binder, M., K-H. Larsson, P. B. Matheny, D. S. Hibbett. 2010. Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: Early diverging clades of Agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid forms. Mycologia 102 (4): 865-880. DOI: 10.3852/09-288
- Hibbett, D. S., R. Bauer, M. Binder, A.J. Giachini, K. Hosaka, A. Justo, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, J.D. Lawrey, O. Miettinen, L. Nagy, R.H. Nilsson, M. Weiss, and R.G. Thorn. 2014. Agaricomycetes. Pp. 373–429 In: Systematics and Evolution, Second Edition, The Mycota VII Part A. (D. J. McLaughlin and J. W. Spatafora, Eds.), Springer Verlag. [Chapter 14 and complete volume PDF at Hibbett Lab Publications.]
- Taxon links
- 82170 Amylocorticiaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum