Dacrymycetales
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The Dacrymycetes are a class of fungi in the Basidiomycota. The class currently contains the single order Dacrymycetales, with a second proposed order Unilacrymales now treated at the family level.[3] The order contains four families and has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Dacrymycetales | |
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Calocera viscosa on conifer wood | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Subdivision: | Agaricomycotina |
Class: | Dacrymycetes Doweld (2001)[1] |
Order: | Dacrymycetales Henn. (1898)[2] |
Families | |
Cerinomycetaceae |
All fungi in the Dacrymycetes are wood-rotting saprotrophs. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, typically yellow to orange as a result of carotenoid pigments,[4] and variously corticioid (effused and patch-forming), disc- or cushion-shaped, spathulate, or clavarioid (club or coral-like). Microscopically, nearly all species have distinctive Y-shaped holobasidia.[3]
Species were formerly placed in the Heterobasidiomycetes and are informally included in the "jelly fungi".