Fungalpedia – Note 3263, Cyphellopsidaceae

 

Cyphellopsidaceae Jülich, Biblthca Mycol. 85: 362 (1982) [1981].

Citation when using this data: He MQ et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Cyphellopsidaceae, described by Jülich (1982) with Cyphellopsis anomala (Pers.) Donk as type species has the same nomenclatural priority that Niaceae, also described by Jülich in the same work (Jülich 1982). However, Cyphellopsidaceae has been firstly selected and legitimate over Niaceae by Knudsen and Vesterholt (2018). Jülich (1982) recognized within Cyphellopsidaceae the genera Calathella, Cyphellopsis, Merismodes, and Woldmaria. Additionally, in Niaceae, Jülich (1982) recognized the genus Nia, typified by the marine species Nia vibrissa R.T. Moore & Meyers. Later, based on molecular data, N. vibrissa was included in the euagaric clade, specifically in Nia clade and related to Calathella mangrovei E.B.G. Jones & Agerer and Halocyphina villosa Kohlm. & E. Kohlm (Binder et al. 2001; Hibbett and Binder 2002), confirming a putative synonym of Cyphellopsidaceae and Niaceae. Within the Nia clade was later confirmed the phylogenetic positioning of other cyphelloid genera such as Cyphellopsis, Flagelloscypha, Lachnella, Maireina, Merismodes, and Woldmaria, as well as the corticioid genus Dendrothele (Bodensteiner et al. 2004; Læssøe et al. 2016; Silva-Filho et al. 2023). Recently, Silva-Filho et al. (2023) emended the morphological concept of Merismodes and, based on the phylogenetic positioning of the epitype of the type species of Maireina [=Maireina monacha (Speg.) W.B. Cooke], considered Maireina is a synonym of Merismodes, which also has the genera Cyphellopsis, Phaeocyphellopsis, and Pseudodasyscypha as synonyms. The placement of the genera Peyronelina and Pseudolasiobolus also has been highlighted in Cyphellopsidaceae by Silva-Filho et al. (2023). Digitatispora, and Phaeodepas must be further investigated based on molecular data, as well as of Akenomyces and Dendrothele based on their type species.

Type genus: Cyphellopsis Donk 1931.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Cyphellopsidaceae.

 

References

Binder M, Hibbett DS, Molitoris HP 2001 – Phylogenetic relationships of the marine gasteromycete Nia vibrissa. Mycologia 93(4):679–688.

Bodensteiner P, Binder M, Moncalvo JM, Agerer R, Hibbett DS 2004 – Phylogenetic relationships of cyphelloid homobasidiomycetes. Molecular Phylogenetics and evolution 33(2):501–515.

Hibbett DS, Binder M 2002 – Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes. Proc Royal Soc B 269:1963–1969.

Jülich W 1982 – Basidiomycetes of south-east Asia 1. The genus Paraphelaria. Persoonia 11:397–406.

Knudsen H, Vesterholt J 2018 – Funga Nordica, 2nd revised edition.Nordsvamp, Copenhagen.

Læssøe TH, Davey ML, Petersen JH 2016 – A new species of Maireina on Filipendula ulmaria. Karstenia 56(1-2):39–46.

Silva-Filho AG, Mombert A, Nascimento CC, Nóbrega BB et al. 2023 – Eoscyphella luciurceolata gen. and sp. nov. (Agaricomycetes) Shed Light on Cyphellopsidaceae with a New Lineage of Bioluminescent Fungi. Journal of Fungi 9(10):1004.

 

Entry by

Mao-Qiang He, State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 24 September 2026.

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