Gloeophyllaceae

Gloeophyllaceae
Gloeophyllum sepiarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Subkingdom: Dikarya
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Subphylum: Agaricomycotina
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Gloeophyllales
Family: Gloeophyllaceae
Jülich (1982)
Genera

Gloeophyllum
Heliocybe
Neolentinus
Veluticeps

Gloeophyllaceae are now a phylogenetically defined family of wood-decay fungi that is characterized by the ability to produce a brown rot of wood.[1][2][3][4] It is classified in an identically defined order, the Gloeophyllales.

References

  1. ^ Hibbett, D.S. & Donoghue, M.J. (2001). "Analysis of character correlations among wood decay mechanisms, mating systems, and substrate ranges in Homobasidiomycetes". Syst. Biol. 50 (2): 215–242. doi:10.1080/10635150151125879. PMID 12116929. 
  2. ^ Hibbett, D.S. et al. (2007). "A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycol. Res. 111 (Pt 5): 509–547. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004. PMID 17572334. 
  3. ^ Hibbett, D.S. & Binder, M. (2002). "Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269 (1504): 1963–1969. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2123. PMC 1691125. PMID 12396494. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1691125. 
  4. ^ Binder, M. et al. (2005). "The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)". Syst. Biodivers. 3 (2): 113–157. doi:10.1017/S1477200005001623.