The Stereaceae are a

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

corticioid fungi The corticioid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota typically having effused, smooth basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that are formed on the undersides of dead tree trunks or branches. They are sometimes colloquially called crust fungi or pa ...

in the

Russulales The Russulales are an order of the Agaricomycetes, (which include the agaric genera ''Russula'' and ''Lactarius'' and their polyporoid and corticioid relatives). According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (10th edition, 2008), the order consist ...

order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are

lignicolous This glossary of mycology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to mycology, the study of fungi. Terms in common with other fields, if repeated here, generally focus on their mycology-specific meaning. Related terms can be found ...

or terrestrial (in

leaf litter Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground. This detritus or dead organic material and its constituent ...

), and typically

saprobic Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi ( ...

. According to the ''Dictionary of the Fungi'', the family contains 22

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and 125

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Genera list

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Acanthobasidium ''Acanthobasidium'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typic ...

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Acanthofungus ''Acanthofungus'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typical ...

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Acanthophysium ''Acanthophysium'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae family. The widespread genus, which contains about 20 species, was circumscribed by New Zealand mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham Gordon Herriot Cunningham, CBE, FRS (27 August 1892 ...

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Aleurocystis ''Aleurocystis'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typicall ...

'' *'' Aleurodiscus'' *''

Amylofungus ''Amylofungus'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae family. Russulales genera Stereaceae {{Russulales-stub ...

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Amylohyphus ''Amylohyphus'' is a fungal genus in the family Stereaceae. It was circumscribed by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden in 1978 to contain the single crust fungus ''Amylohyphus africanus''. The fungus, which grows as a thin crust on deciduous wood ...

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Amylosporomyces ''Amylosporomyces'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typic ...

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Amylostereum ''Amylostereum'' is the single genus in the fungal family Amylostereaceae. The genus currently comprises four saprotrophic and parasitic species, which live off living or dead wood. The Amylostereaceae cause white rot in the wood by disinteg ...

'' *'' Boidinia'' *'' Chaetoderma'' *''

Conferticium ''Conferticium'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typicall ...

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Gloeocystidiopsis ''Gloeocystidiopsis'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typ ...

'' *'' Gloeodontia'' *'' Gloeomyces'' *''

Megalocystidium ''Megalocystidium'' is a genus of fungi in the Stereaceae The Stereaceae are a family of corticioid fungi in the Russulales order. Species in the family have a widespread distribution, are lignicolous or terrestrial (in leaf litter), and typic ...

'' *'' Pseudoxenasma'' *''

Scotoderma ''Scotoderma'' is a monospecific genus of fungi in the Stereaceae family, containing only the species Scotoderma viride. References Monotypic Russulales genera Stereaceae {{Russulales-stub ...

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Scytinostromella ''Scytinostromella'' is a genus of crust fungi in the Stereaceae family. The widespread genus contains five species. The genus was circumscribed by Estonian mycologist Erast Parmasto in 1968, who set ''Peniophora heterogenea'' as the type species ...

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Stereum ''Stereum'' is the type genus of the Stereaceae family of fungi, in the Russulales order. Until recently, the genus was classified in the Corticiaceae family, of the Corticiales order. However, it was given its own family as a result of the spl ...

'' *'' Xylobolus'' There is also

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

evidence that the species known as

BY1 ''BY1'' is a taxonomically unidentified basidiomycete fungus. ITS sequencing has placed it in the Russulales and is referred to as a stereaceous basidiomycete. Chemotaxonomically supporting its placement in this group, it produces fomannoxins an ...

is in Stereaceae, but has yet to be described completely.

References

External links

Stereaceae at Hidden Forest
Russulales Basidiomycota families {{Russulales-stub