Corticiaceae

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Corticiaceae
Erythricium laetum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Corticiales
Family: Corticiaceae
Herter (1910)
Type genus
Pers.
Genera

Basidiodesertica
Corticium
Disporotrichum
Erythricium
Giulia
Laetisaria
Marchandiomyces
Mycobernardia
Tretopileus
Waitea

The Corticiaceae are a

genera
within the Corticiales.

Taxonomy

History

The German

unnatural grouping. Indeed, in a 1964 survey of families, Donk considered the Corticiaceae to be "a nice example of how extremely artificial taxa can be".[1]

In this wide sense, the boundaries of the Corticiaceae were never clearly defined. It was sometimes separated from the Stereaceae, a family in which fruitbodies had a tendency to form pilei (caps or brackets),[1] but often these two artificial families were united. In this united sense, the Corticiaceae certainly included the genera and species treated in the standard, 8-volume reference work The Corticiaceae of North Europe (1972-1987), where it was acknowledged that the family was "not a natural taxon but an assemblage of species with similar habitat."[2] With the addition of non-European species, this meant that the Corticiaceae eventually expanded to include over 200 genera worldwide.[3] The name "Corticiaceae" is still occasionally used in this wide sense (sensu lato),[4] but it has generally been replaced by the term "corticioid fungi".[5]

Current status

DNA sequences, has limited the Corticiaceae in its strict sense (sensu stricto) to a comparatively small group of ten genera within the Corticiales.[6]

Description

Though now based on

lichens and Erythricium salmonicolor, Laetisaria spp, and some Waitea spp on grasses and other plants.[7][8][6]

Habitat and distribution

Several species in the Corticiaceae are wood-rotting

saprotrophs, typically forming corticioid basidiocarps on the undersides of dead, attached branches, less commonly on fallen wood. Several are parasites of lichens, grasses, or other plants. Giulia tenuis produces a pycnidial anamorph growing on bamboo.[9] Collectively, they have a cosmopolitan distribution.[7][8]

Economic importance

A number of species within the Corticiaceae are commercially important

turf grass.[14]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 82916652
    .
  2. ISBN 978-82-90724-03-5
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-85198-885-6
    . (In which the "Corticiaceae s.l." is approximately equivalent to the "Stereales")
  4. ISBN 978-88-901057-9-1
    .
  5. ^ (e.g.) Hjortstam K, Ryvarden L (2007). "Checklist of corticioid fungi (Basidiomycotina) from the tropics, subtropics and the southern hemisphere". Synopsis Fungorum. 22: 27–146.
  6. ^
    PMID 34512580
    .
  7. ^
    S2CID 13102957
    .
  8. ^
    S2CID 23996344
    .
  9. PMID 18501576
    .
  10. doi:10.1590/s0103-90162007000200009
    .
  11. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2006.06.016
    .
  12. PMID 34380577
    .
  13. PMID 30795375
    .
  14. ^ "Red Thread lawn disease - cause, symptoms and treatment". www.lawnandmower.com. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
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