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Dacrymyces

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Dacrymyces

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Dacrymyces is a genus of fungi in the family Dacrymycetaceae. Species are saprotrophs and occur on dead wood. Their distribution is worldwide. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, often yellow to orange, and typically disc-shaped to cushion-shaped.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumBasidiomycota
  3. ClassDacrymycetes
  4. OrderDacrymycetales
  5. FamilyDacrymycetaceae
Observations recorded81,248

Łzawnik główkowaty Dacrymyces Nees (łzawnik) – rodzaj grzybów należący do rodziny łzawnikowatych (Dacrymycetaceae).

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,731
With media
308
Family
Dacrymycetaceae
Collections
NCU, CINC, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), OSC, LSUM, DBG
Recorded in
United States, Brasil, French Guiana, Canada, Guyana, Brazil

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Dacrymyces is a genus of fungi in the family Dacrymycetaceae. Species are saprotrophs and occur on dead wood. Their distribution is worldwide. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, often yellow to orange, and typically disc-shaped to cushion-shaped.

The genus has traditionally been differentiated from other genera in the Dacrymycetaceae on the basis of basidiocarp morphology, following (in recent years) the monograph of New Zealand mycologist Robert McNabb. Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has however shown that morphology is not a good indicator of natural relationships within the Dacrymycetaceae. As a result, several species formerly referred to Dacrymyces have been moved to Dacryonaema or Dendrodacrys.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dacrymyces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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