Lichtheimiaceae is a family of fungi in the order Mucorales. The family was circumscribed in 2013 after a molecular phylogenetic analysis helped delineate a new family structure for the Mucorales.
FAMILY
via GBIF
Lichtheimiaceae is a family of fungi in the order Mucorales. The family was circumscribed in 2013 after a molecular phylogenetic analysis helped delineate a new family structure for the Mucorales.
==Genera== Circinella – 11 spp. Dichotomocladium – 5 spp. Fennellomyces – 4 spp. Lichtheimia – 7 spp. Phascolomyces – 1 sp. Rhizomucor – 6 spp. Thamnostylum – 4 spp. Thermomucor – 1 sp. Zychaea – 1 sp.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).