Dacrymycetes

Dacrymycetes
Calocera cornea on a log
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Subkingdom:	Dikarya
Division:	Basidiomycota
Subdivision:	Agaricomycotina
Class:	Dacrymycetes Dowell (2001)[1]
Order:	Dacrymycetales Henn. (1898)[2]
Family:	Dacrymycetaceae Bref. (1888)[3]
Type genus
Dacrymyces Nees (1817)[4]
Genera
Calocera Cerinomyces Cerinosterus Dacrymyces Dacryonaema Dacryopinax Dacryoscyphus Ditiola Guepiniopsis

The Dacrymycetes are a class consisting of only one family of jelly fungi, which has imperforate parenthesomes and basidia that are usually branched.^[5] There are 9 genera and 101 species in the Dacrymycetaceae family.^[6]

See also

• Jelly fungi

References

1. ^ Doweld A. (2001). Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta). Moscow, Russia: GEOS. ISBN 9785891182837. 
2. ^ Engler & Prantl (eds) (1898). Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 96.  (as "Dacromycetineae"
3. ^ Brefeld O. (1888). "Basidiomyceten II, Protobasidiomyceten". Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie 7: 138. 
4. ^ Nees CDG. (1817). System der Pilze und Schwämme. p. 89. 
5. ^ Hibbett DS, Binder M, Bischoff JF, Blackwell M, Cannon PF, Eriksson OE, et al. (2007). "A higher level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycological Research 111 (5): 509–47. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004. PMID 17572334. 
6. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 192. ISBN 0-85199-826-7. 

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