Meruliaceae

Meruliaceae
Merulius tremellosus, member of the Meruliaceae.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Meruliaceae Rea (1922)
Type genus
Merulius Fr. (1821)
Synonyms[1]
Steccherinaceae Parmasto (1968)

The Meruliaceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 47 genera and 420 species.^[2] The family was formally circumscribed by English mycologist Carleton Rea in 1922.^[3]

Genera

• Abortiporus
• Amaurohydnum
• Amauromyces
• Aquascypha
• Bjerkandera
• Bulbillomyces
• Byssomerulius
• Cabalodontia
• Ceraceohydnum
• Cerocorticium
• Chondrostereum
• Chrysoderma
• Climacodon
• Columnodontia
• Conohypha
• Coralloderma
• Crustoderma
• Cyanodontia
• Cylindrobasidium
• Cymatoderma
• Dacryobolus
• Diacanthodes
• Flaviporus
• Gelatoporia
• Gloeohypochnicium
• Gloeoporus
• Gyrophanopsis
• Hydnophlebia
• Hyphoderma
• Hyphodontiastra
• Hypochnicium
• Irpex
• Junghuhnia
• Lamelloporus
• Loweomyces
• Merulius
• Mycoacia
• Mycoaciella
• Mycoleptodonoides
• Mycorrhaphium
• Phlebia
• Pirex
• Podoscypha
• Radulodon
• Resinicium
• Sarcodontia
• Scopuloides
• Skvortzovia
• Steccherinum
• Stegiacantha
• Stereopsis
• Uncobasidium

References

1. ^ "Meruliaceae Rea 1922". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=89005. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
3. ^ Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetae: a Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 620. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17128455.