Dacrymycetes
The Dacrymycetes are a class of fungi in the Basidiomycota. The class currently contains the single order Dacrymycetales, with a second proposed order Unilacrymales now treated at the family level.[3] The order contains four families and has a cosmopolitan distribution.
| Dacrymycetes | |
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| Calocera viscosa on conifer wood | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Subdivision: | Agaricomycotina |
| Class: | Dacrymycetes Doweld (2001)[1] |
| Order: | Dacrymycetales Henn. (1898)[2] |
| Families | |
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Cerinomycetaceae | |
All fungi in the Dacrymycetes are wood-rotting saprotrophs. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, typically yellow to orange as a result of carotenoid pigments,[4] and variously corticioid (effused and patch-forming), disc- or cushion-shaped, spathulate, or clavarioid (club or coral-like). Microscopically, nearly all species have distinctive Y-shaped holobasidia.[3]
Species were formerly placed in the Heterobasidiomycetes and are informally included in the "jelly fungi".
References
- Doweld A (2001). Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta). Moscow, Russia: GEOS. ISBN 978-5-89118-283-7.
- Engler A; Prantl K.A.E, eds. (1898). Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1. p. 96. (as "Dacromycetineae")
- Zamora JC, Ekman S (2020). "Phylogeny and character evolution in the Dacrymycetes, and systematics of Unilacrymaceae and Dacryonaemataceae fam. nov". Persoonia. 44: 161–205. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2020.44.07. PMC 7567964. PMID 33116340.
- Gill M, Steglich W (1987). "Pigments of fungi. Macromycetes". Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe. Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. 51: 1–317. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6971-1_1. ISBN 978-3-7091-7456-2. PMID 3315906.