Dacrymyces is a genus of fungi in the family Dacrymycetaceae. Species are saprotrophs and occur on dead wood. Their distribution is worldwide. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, often yellow to orange, and typically disc-shaped to cushion-shaped.

Dacrymyces
Dacrymyces chrysospermus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Dacrymycetes
Order: Dacrymycetales
Family: Dacrymycetaceae
Genus: Dacrymyces
Nees (1817)[1]
Type species
Dacrymyces stillatus
Nees (1817)
Species

~60, see text

Synonyms[2]

Hydromycus Raf. (1808)

The genus has traditionally been differentiated from other genera in the Dacrymycetaceae on the basis of basidiocarp morphology, following (in recent years) the monograph of New Zealand mycologist Robert McNabb.[3] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has however shown that morphology is not a good indicator of natural relationships within the Dacrymycetaceae.[4] As a result several species formerly referred to Dacrymyces have been moved to Dacryonaema[4] or Dendrodacrys.[5][6]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Nees von Esenbeck CDG. (1817). System der Pilze und Schwämme (in German). p. 89.
  2. ^ "Dacrymyces Nees 1817". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  3. ^ McNabb, RF (1973). "Taxonomic studies in the Dacrymycetaceae: VIII. Dacrymyces Nees ex Fries". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 11 (3): 461–524. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1973.10430296.
  4. ^ a b Zamora JC, Ekman S (2020). "Phylogeny and character evolution in the Dacrymycetes, and systematics of Unilacrymaceae and Dacryonaemataceae fam. nov". Persoonia. 44: 161–205. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2020.44.07. PMC 7567964. PMID 33116340.
  5. ^ Zamora JC, Savchenko A, González-Cruz Á, Prieto-García F, Olariaga I, Ekman S (2022). "Dendrodacrys: a new genus for species with branched hyphidia in Dacrymyces s.l., with the description of four new species". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 9: 27–42. doi:10.3114/fuse.2022.09.04. PMC 9355100. PMID 35978985.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Savchenko A, Zamora JC, Alvarenga R, Kõljalg U, Miettinen O (2022). "Additions to Dendrodacrys and outline of taxa with branched hyphidia in Dacrymycetes (Basidiomycota)". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 10: 103–126. doi:10.3114/fuse.2022.10.04. PMC 9903345. PMID 36789282. S2CID 253086155.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)