Dacrymycetales
| Dacrymycetales | |
|---|---|
| Calocera viscosa on conifer wood | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Subdivision: | Agaricomycotina |
| Class: | Dacrymycetes Doweld (2001) |
| Order: | Dacrymycetales Henn. (1898) |
| Families | |
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Cerinomycetaceae | |
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.
Species were formerly placed in the Heterobasidiomycetes and are informally included in the "jelly fungi".