Tremellomycetes | |
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Tremella mesenterica | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Subdivision: | Agaricomycotina |
Class: | Tremellomycetes Hibbett, Matheny & Manfr. Binder (2007) |
Orders | |
Chionasterales |
The Tremellomycetes are a class of dimorphic fungi in the Agaricomycotina. Some species have gelatinous basidiocarps (fruiting bodies) or (microscopically) a sacculate parenthesome. [1] There are six orders, 17 families, and 39 genera in the Tremellomycetes. [2] [3] Tremellomycetes include yeasts, dimorphic taxa, and species that form complex fruiting bodies. [4] Tremellomycetes include some fungi that are human and animal pathogens in the genera Cryptococcus , Naganishia , Papiliotrema , and Trichosporon and some fungi that are cultivated for food in the genera Tremella and Naematelia .
TremellomycetidaeLocq. is a class of lichen in the Basidiomycota division. [5] It only held one order, Tremellales. It was also a former class within the fungi system, up until the late 1990s. [6] Swann and Taylor in their revision in 1995 had two classes in the Hymenomycetes: Hymenomycetidae (containing non-yeast fungi, mushrooms and puffballs) and Tremellomycetidae (holding the rest). [7] [8] Subsequent revisions to the fungi system removed it in favour of Tremellomycetes. [9]