Chromocyphellaceae

Chromocyphellaceae
"Chromocyphella muscicola"
Chromocyphella muscicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Chromocyphellaceae
Knudsen (2010)
Type genus
Chromocyphella
De Toni & Levi (1888)
Genera

The Chromocyphellaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi described by mycologist Henning Knudsen in 2010.

Taxonomy

The family comprises the two genera Chromocyphella and Phaeosolenia, which previously belonged to the Inocybaceae, based on molecular evidence.

Morphology

Characteristic features of the family includes cyphelloid fruitbodies and brown, smooth or verrucose spores with germ pores or some callus formation.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Petersen G, Knudsen H, Seberg O (2010). "Alignment, clade robustness and fungal phylogenetics — Crepidotaceae and sister families revisited". Cladistics. 26 (1): 62–71. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00279.x. PMID 34875756. S2CID 84495351.