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Hymenochaetales

(Order)

Overview

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The Hymenochaetales is an order of fungi. This group contains a number of corticioid fungi, polypores, such as Inotus and Phellinus, as well as several agaric species, such as Rickenella and Loreleia.

The Hymenochaetales were discovered through molecular phylogeny, and have few uniting morphological characters. All members of this group have hyphae in which the septa are of the dolipore type and have imperforate parenthesomes.

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Taxonomy

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The Order Hymenochaetales is further organized into finer groupings including:

Families

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Hymenochaetaceae

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Schizoporaceae

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At least 329 species and subspecies belong to the Family Schizoporaceae.

More info about the Family Schizoporaceae may be found here.

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Last Revised: September 22, 2009
2009/09/22 07:56:27