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Dacrymycetales
Sign in to saveThe 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. The order contains four families and has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 10
- Collections
- MICH, MEL, F, UCSC, MNHN, NEB
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Australia, United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Mayotte
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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. The order contains four families and has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dacrymycetales” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.