Tremellales
| Tremellales | |
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| Gelatinous fruit body of Tremella fuciformis, a commercially cultivated species | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: |
Tremellales Rea |
| Families | |
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Carcinomycetaceae |
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Carcinomycetaceae
Cuniculitremaceae
Phragmoxenidiaceae
Rhynchogastremataceae
Sirobasidiaceae
Tetragoniomycetaceae
Tremellaceae
Trichosporonaceae
The Tremellales are an order of fungi in the class Tremellomycetes. The order contains both teleomorphic and anamorphic species, most of the latter being yeasts. All teleomorphic species in the Tremellales are parasites of other fungi, though the yeast states are widespread and not restricted to hosts. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies), when produced, are gelatinous.
The order currently comprises 8 families, containing around 300 valid species. Significant genera include Tremella, two species of which are edible and commercially cultivated, and the yeast genera and Trichosporon, several species of which are human pathogens.
The order Tremellales was created by Carleton Rea in 1922 for species in which the basidia were "tremelloid" (globose to ellipsoid with vertical or diagonal septa). Rea placed within it one family, the Tremellaceae, having the same characteristics as the order.
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