Fungalpedia – Note 2416, Tremellales

 

Tremellales Fr.

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

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

The order was set up by Fries (1821), based on Tremellaceae Fr. Most species of the order have gelatinous basidiocarps with transverse or oblique basidial septa. However, some teleomorphic species apparently lack basidiocarps and some species grow as yeasts in their haploid stages (Weiss et al. 2014; Liu et al. 2015b). 

 

References

Fries EM 1821 – Systema mycologicum 1:1–520.

Liu XZ, Wang QM, Theelen B, Groenewald M, Bai FY, Boekhout T 2015b – Phylogeny of tremellomycetous yeasts and related dimorphic and filamentous basidiomycetes reconstructed from multiple gene sequence analyses. Stud Mycol 81:1–26.

Weiss M, Bauer R, Sampaio JP, Obwinkler F 2014 – Tremellomycetes and related groups. In: McLaughlin DJ, Spatafora JW (eds) Mycota VII, Part A, Systematics and evolution. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 349–350.

 

Entry by

Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

 

Published online 5 May 2026

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