Porotheleaceae

Porotheleaceae
Phloeomana speirea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Suborder: Marasmineae
Family: Porotheleaceae
Murrill (1916)
Type genus
Porotheleum
Fr. (1818)
Genera

The Porotheleaceae are a family of saprotrophic, mainly wood-decay fungi in the order Agaricales that are primarily agarics, but also include cyphelloid fungi. The family had been informally cited in the literature as the 'hydropoid' clade.[1][2] The type genus, Porotheleum, was placed in the phylogenetically defined clade in 2002[1] but the clade was more strongly supported in 2006[2] though without including Porotheleum. Its sister group is the Cyphellaceae, both in the 'marasmioid clade'.[2] Some included taxa are cultivated by ants.[1] More recently the family was recognized in three analyses that included Porotheleum.[3][4][5]

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