Corticiales
| Corticiales | |
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| Erythricium laetum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: |
Corticiales K.-H. Larsson (2007) |
| Families | |
| Synonyms | |
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1907 Protohymeniales Lotsy |
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Corticiaceae
Punctulariaceae
Vuilleminiaceae
1907 Protohymeniales Lotsy
1998 Vuilleminiales Boidin, Mugnier & Canales
The Corticiales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. The order is mostly composed of corticioid fungi, but also includes one anomalous agaricoid species, Marchandiomphalina foliacea. Species within the order are generally saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters, but several are parasitic on grasses or lichens. Those of economic importance include Waitea circinata, a pathogen of cereal crops, and Laetisaria fuciformis, the cause of red thread disease in turf grass.
The order was established in 2007 by Swedish mycologist Karl-Henrik Larsson, based on molecular phylogenetic research. Though the precise boundaries of the order and its constituent families are yet to be resolved, it includes the Corticiaceae (the type family) as well as the Punctulariaceae and Vuilleminiaceae.
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