Family Panaceae
[part of residual clade of Polyporales]
This new family is a sister clade to the new family of Cerrenaceae. The agaricoid Panus represents another independent origin of gills. Cymatoderma is a stipitate steroid fungus with a smooth hymenium. Cymatoderma caperatum is found in Georgia, the Gulf Coast states, and Mexico, as well as South America and Australia.
- Cymatoderma sensu stricto, includes C. elegans and C. caperatum
- Panus, includes P. conchatus, P. fragilis, P. neostrigosus, P. rudis
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Panaceae , in Justo, Miettinen, Floudas, Ortiz-Santana, Sjökvist, Lindner, Nakasone, Niemelä, Larsson, Ryvarden & Hibbett, Fungal Biology 121(9): 817 (2017). Type: Panus Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Upsaliae): 396 (1838).
- Taxonomy
- Cymatoderma is polyphyletic with the type species and related taxa here in Panaceae. The unrelated
Cymatoderma
are in the Podoscyphaceae. - Related links
- Justo, A., O. Miettinen, D. Floudas, B. Ortiz-Santana, E. Sjökvist, D. Lindner, K. K. Nakasone, T. Niemelä, K.-H. Larsson, L. Ryvarden, D.S. Hibbett. 2017. A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota), Fungal Biology 121(9): 798-824. DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010 [PDF available at Justo Publications]
- Sjökvist, E., E. Larsson, U. Eberhardt, L. Ryvarden & K.-H. Larsson. 2012. Stipitate stereoid basidiocarps have evolved multiple times. Mycologia 104(5): 1046-55. DOI: 10.3852/11-174.
- Welden, A. L. 1960. The Genus Cymatoderma (Thelephoraceae) in the Americas Mycologia 52(6): 856-876. DOI: 10.2307/3755848.
- Taxon links
- 820827 Panaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum