Dacrymycetes

Dacrymycetes
	Calocera viscosa on conifer wood
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Subdivision:	Agaricomycotina
Class:	Dacrymycetes; Doweld (2001)
Order:	Dacrymycetales; Henn. (1898)
Families
	Cerinomycetaceae; Dacrymycetaceae; Dacryonaemataceae; Unilacrymaceae

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.

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

^ Engler A; Prantl K.A.E, eds. (1898). Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1. p. 96. (as "Dacromycetineae")
^ Doweld A (2001). Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta). Moscow, Russia: GEOS. ISBN 978-5-89118-283-7.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Gill M, Steglich W (1987). "Pigments of fungi. Macromycetes". Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe. 51: 1–317.

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[Engler1898-1] Engler A; Prantl K.A.E, eds. (1898). Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1. p. 96. (as "Dacromycetineae")

[Doweld2001-2] Doweld A (2001). Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta). Moscow, Russia: GEOS. ISBN 978-5-89118-283-7.

[Zamora2020-3] 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.

[Gill1987-4] Gill M, Steglich W (1987). "Pigments of fungi. Macromycetes". Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe. 51: 1–317.

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