Cystofilobasidiales

The Cystofilobasidiales are an order of fungi in the class Tremellomycetes of the Basidiomycota. They usually exhibit a life phase of free-living yeasts. Meiotic taxa are heterothallic or selfsporulating. They form dikaryote teliospores, from which the unicellular basidia (if present) are formed. The hyphae usually have dolipore septa without a parenthesome, and their cell walls contain xylose. Cystofilobasidium is the type genus.[1] The order contains one family (the Cystofilobasidiaceae) with nine genera and 20 species.[2]

Cystofilobasidiales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Tremellomycetes
Order:	Cystofilobasidiales Boekhout & Fell in Fell, Roeijmans & Boekhout, 1999
Family:	Cystofilobasidiaceae Well & Bandoni
Type genus
Cystofilobasidium Oberw. & Bandoni

Genera of Cystofilobasidiales comprise:

• Cystofilobasidium
• Guehomyces
• Itersonilia
• Mrakia
• Phaffia
• Tausonia
• Udeniomyces
• Xanthophyllomyces

References

1. Fell, Jack W.; Roeijmans, Henri; Boekhout, T. (1999). "Cystofilobasidiales, a new order of basidiomycetous yeasts" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 49 (2): 903–913.
2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

External links

• The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles Description