Phelloriniaceae

Phelloriniaceae

Phellorinia herculeana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Subclass:	Agaricomycetidae
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Phelloriniaceae Ulbr. (1951)
Type genus
Phellorinia Berk. (1843)
Genera
Dictyocephalos Phellorinia

The Phelloriniaceae are a family of fungi in the Agaricales order. The family contains two monotypic genera, Dictyocephalos, and Phellorinia.^[1] The family was circumscribed by the German botanist Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich in 1951.^[2]

References

^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 521. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
^ Ulbrich E. (1952). "Phellorinia delestrei (Dur, et Mont.) Ed. Fischer, ein fur Mitteleuropa neuer Wustenpilz und uber die neue Gasteromyceten-Familie der Phelloriniaceae Ulbrich nov. fam. aus der Verwandt-schaft der Sclerodermatineen" (in German). Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 64 (9): 256–69.