Hymenochaetaceae

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Basidiomycota
  |--Urediniomycetes
  `--+--Ustilaginomycetes
     `--Hymenomycetes
          |==tremelloid taxa
          `--Homobasidiomycetes
               |--phalloid clade
               `--+--cantharelloid clade
                  `--+--hymenochaetoid clade
                     |--russuloid clade
                     |--polyporoid clade
                     |--Gloeophyllum clade
                     |--thelephoroid clade
                     |--Dendrocorticium clade
                     |--Jaapia
                     |--Boletales
                     `--agaricoid clade

Inonotus hispidus growing on apple tree

Hymenochaetaceae are a family of bracket fungi in the Homobasidiomycetes. Molecular data indicate that it belongs in a well-supported hymenochaetoid clade (Hibbett & Binder, 2002) along with taxa previously included in the Corticiaceae (e. g. Hyphodontia) and Polyporaceae (e. g. Oxyporus, Schizopora - Hibbett & Thorn, 2001).

Description: (from Hibbett & Thorn, 2001) Clampless generative hyphae, fruiting bodies darkening in KOH (xanthochroic reaction), production of white rot, presence of setae.

Phylogeny

<==Hymenochaetaceae
   |  i. s.: Coltriciella
   |           |--C. navispora Aime, Henkel & Ryvarden 2003
   |           |--C. oblectabilis
   |           `--C. pusilla
   |--+--Hymenochaete
   |  |    |--H. corrugata
   |  |    |--H. rhabarbarina
   |  |    `--H. tabacina
   |  `--+--Inonotus hispidus
   |     `--+--‘Phellinus’ igniarius
   |        `--Phylloporia
   |             |--P. ribis
   |             |--P. spathulata
   |             `--‘Polyporus’ veraecrucis
   `--+--Phellinus
      |    |--P. gilvus
      |    |--P. roseo-cinereus
      |    `--P. senex
      `--Coltricia
           |--C. barbata
           |--C. cinnamomea
           |--C. focicola
           |--C. fonsecoensis
           |--C. hamata
           |--C. montagnei
           |--C. perennis
           |--C. pyrophila
           |--C. stuckertiana
           `--C. verrucata Aime, Henkel & Ryvarden 2003

* Type species of genus indicated

References

Aime, M. C., T. W. Henkel & L. Ryvarden. 2003. Studies in neotropical polypores 15: New and interesting species from Guyana. Mycologia 95 (4): 614-619.

Hibbett, D. S., & M. Binder. 2002. Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 1963-1969.

Hibbett, D. S., & R. G. Thorn. 2001. Homobasidiomycetes. In The Mycota: A comprehensive treatise on fungi as experimental systems for basic and applied research vol. 7. Systematics and Evolution - Part B (D. J. McLaughlin, E. G. McLaughlin & P. A. Lemke, eds.) pp. 121-170. Springer.

Popoff, O. F. 2003. Notes on Daedalea erubescens, Hexagonia decipiens and the Phaeotrametaceae. Mycotaxon 87: 103-108.

Rossman, A. Y., G. J. Samuels, C. T. Rogerson & R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42: 1-248.

Credits

Introduction CKT071101; phylogeny CKT070618.