Class Dacrymycetes
[one of 5 groups of jelly fungi]
This group of jelly fungi is distinguished by the tuning fork basidium; the long cell has two long sterigmata. It contains one main order with one main family with 11 genera and 150 species. Shirouzu et al. 2013 (link below) created a new genus, family, and order for Dacrymyces unisporus: Unilacryma unispora (L.S. Olive) Shirouzu, Tokum. & Oberw., Unilacrymaceae, Unilacrymales.
- Dacrymycetales
- Unilacrymales
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Dacrymycetes , Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum, Tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta): LXXVII (2001). Type: Dacrymyces Nees 1816.
- Taxonomy
- The classification of these genera will change; at least Cerinomyces, Dacrymyces and Dacryopinax are polyphyletic. The orphan species Dacryomycetopsis rosea Rick (1958) may belong to this class or somewhere else in the Basidiomycota.
- Description links
- Tree of Life (2008)
- Wikipedia
- Related links
- McLaughlin, D. J. and J. W. Spatafora, Eds. 2014. Systematics and Evolution, Second Edition, The Mycota VII Part A. Springer Verlag. [complete volume PDF at Hibbett Lab Publications.]
- Shirouzu et al. 2013. Combined molecular and morphological data for improving phylogenetic hypothesis in Dacrymycetes. Mycologia 105(5): 1110-1125. DOI: 10.3852/12-147
- Taxon links
- 501296 Dacrymycetes
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum