| Atheliales | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | Agaricomycetidae |
| Order: | Atheliales Jülich 1981 |
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Atheliales is an order of mostly corticioid or athelioid fungi placed under the Agaricomycetidae subclass. It was first described by Walter Jülich[1] in 1981 along with 4 families, Lobuliciaceae, Atheliaceae, Byssocorticiaceae and Pilodermataceae. Another family was discovered in 2020 called Tylosporaceae.[2] It contains roughly 100 described species in 20 genera[2] with varied ecological diversity. Most species have relatively simple gross morphology and do not have a lot of diagnostic characters. They produce crust-like fruiting bodies attached loosely to their substrate.
- ^ Swann, Eric C.; Taylor, John W. (1993). "Higher Taxa of Basidiomycetes: An 18S rRNA Gene Perspective". Mycologia. 85 (6): 923–936. doi:10.1080/00275514.1993.12026354. ISSN 0027-5514. S2CID 85014066.
- ^ a b Sulistyo, Bobby P.; Larsson, Karl-Henrik [in Swedish]; Haelewaters, Danny; Ryberg, Martin (2021-03-01). "Multigene phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Atheliales s.l.: Reinstatement of three families and one new family, Lobuliciaceae fam. nov". Fungal Biology. 125 (3): 239–255. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2020.11.007. hdl:1854/LU-8705206. ISSN 1878-6146. S2CID 229396548.