Dacrymycetes

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 family Dacrymycetaceae.[6]

Dacrymycetes
Calocera cornea on a log
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Subdivision:	Agaricomycotina
Class:	Dacrymycetes Doweld (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 Femsjonia Guepiniopsis

See also

• Jelly fungi

References

1. Doweld A. (2001). Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta). Moscow, Russia: GEOS. ISBN 978-5-89118-283-7.
2. Engler; Prantl, eds. (1898). Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 96. Missing or empty |title= (help) (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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.626.9582. 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.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

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