- Helvellaceae
Taxobox
color = lightblue
name = Helvellaceae
image_caption = "Helvella crispa "
regnum = Fungi
phylum =Ascomycota
classis =Ascomycetes
ordo =Pezizales
familia = Helvellaceae
familia_authority = Fr.
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Helvella "
"Wynella "
"Underwoodia "
"Balsamia "
"Barssia "The Helvellaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi, the best known members of which are the elfin saddles of the genus "
Helvella ". Originally erected byElias Magnus Fries in 1823 as Elvellacai, it contained many genera. Several of these, such as "Gyromitra " and "Discina ", have been found to be more distantly related in a molecular study of ribosomal DNA by mycologist Kerry O'Donell in 1997, leaving a much smaller core clade now redefined as Helvellaceae. Instead, this narrowly defined group is most closely related to the true truffles of the Tuberaceae. [cite journal |last=O'Donnell |first=Kerry|coauthors= Elizabeth Cigelnik, Nancy S. Weber and James M. Trappe |year=1997|title=Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetous truffles and the true and false morels inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis |journal=Mycologia |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=48-65 |doi=10.2307/3761172]References
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