Fungalpedia – Note 2502, Corticiaceae

 

Corticiaceae Herter

Citation when using this data: Sajeewa SN et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Corticiales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Notes—Ecologically and phenotypically Corticiaceae is the most diverse family in Corticiales that includes a sexual morph with corticioid type fruiting bodies and coelomycetes and hyphomycetes asexual genera with diverse nutritional modes. The genera Capillosclerotium Prameela & Deeba, Corticirama Pilát, Corticium Pers., Erythricium J. Erikss. & Hjortstam, Galzinia Bourdot, Giulia Tassi, Laetisaria Burds., Lawreymyces Lücking & Moncada, Marchandiomyces Diederich & D. Hawksw., Necator Massee, Tretopileus B.O. Dodge and Waitea Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot are presently recognized in Corticiaceae (Hibbett et al. 2014). Species of the family are saprobes, plant pathogens, mycoparasites, lichenized or lichenicolous taxa (Jayawardena et al. 2019). 

 

Type genus: Corticium Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 110 (1794).

 

References

Hibbett DS, Bauer R, Binder M, Giachini AJ, Hosaka K, Justo A, Larsson E, Larsson KH, Lawrey JD, Miettinen O, Nagy LG, Nilsson RH, Weiss M, Thorn RG 2014 – 14 Agaricomycetes. In: McLaughlin D, Spatafora J (eds) Systematics and evolution The Mycota (A comprehensive treatise on fungi as experimental systems for basic and applied research), vol 7A. Springer, Berlin, pp 373–429.

Jayawardena RS, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Ghobad-Nejhad M, Wanasinghe DN, Liu N, Phillips AJL, Oliveira-Filho JRC, da Silva GA, Gibertoni TB, Abeywikrama P, Carris LM, Chethana KWT, Dissanayake AJ, Hongsanan S, Jayasiri SC, McTaggart AR, Perera RH, Phutthacharoen K, Savchenko KG, Shivas RG, Thongklang N, Dong W, Wei DP, Wijayawardena NN, Kang JC 2019 – One stop shop II: taxonomic update with molecular phylogeny for important phytopathogenic genera: 26–50 (2019). Fungal Divers 94:41–129.

 

Entry by

Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, People’s Republic of China, Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

Published online 28 May 2026

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