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The Discinaceae is a family of ascomycete fungi, the best known members of which are the false morels of the genus Gyromitra. Originally erected by Benedix in 1961, it was found to be a discrete clade in a molecular study of ribosomal DNA by mycologist Kerry O'Donell in 1997.[1]
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- ^ O'Donnell, Kerry; Elizabeth Cigelnik, Nancy S. Weber and James M. Trappe (1997). "Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetous truffles and the true and false morels inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis". Mycologia 89 (1): 48-65. doi:10.2307/3761172.
