The Cystofilobasidiaceae are a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

of fungi in the order

Cystofilobasidiales The Cystofilobasidiales are an order of fungi in the class Tremellomycetes of the Basidiomycota. They usually exhibit a life phase of free-living yeasts. The order contains two families with seven genera and some 25 species A species () is ...

Phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics () is the study of the evolutionary history of life using observable characteristics of organisms (or genes), which is known as phylogenetic inference. It infers the relationship among organisms based on empirical dat ...

analyses shows that this family is clearly distinct from other yeast-like families of the

Tremellomycetes The Tremellomycetes are a class of dimorphic fungi in the Agaricomycotina. Some species have gelatinous basidiocarps (fruiting bodies) or (microscopically) a sacculate parenthesome. There are six orders, 17 families, and 39 genera in the Trem ...

. The family currently contains the single genus '' Cystofilobasidium''. Additional genera previously referred to the Cystofilobasidiaceae are now placed in the Mrakiaceae.

References

Tremellomycetes Cystofilobasidiaceae Taxa described in 2001 {{Agaricomycotina-stub