Aphyllophorales

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Aphyllophorales - includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricalesorder Aphyllophoralesfungus order - the order of fungiBasidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina - comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungifamily Polyporaceae, Polyporaceae - fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on treesfamily Fistulinaceae, Fistulinaceae - a family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other

Aphyllophorales

an order of fungi from the class Basidiomycetes which includes around 4,000 species. Aphyl-lophorales have an open (gymnocarpous) hymenophore which is smooth or shaped in spines, folds, or tubules which have grown together with the flesh. Sometimes there are twisting processes and plates. The fruiting bodies of the Aphyllophorales vary from being resupinate to rising over the substrate in the form of bent-back caps, caps with a lateral or central stalk, and hoof-shaped, club-shaped, bush-shaped, and other types of caps. The fungi are annuals or perennials. They may be weblike, waxy, leathery, corklike, woody, or meaty. Saprophytes live on dead wood and in the soil; some are parasitic on trees (many Polyporales of the Stereum purpureum species) and grassy plants (Pellicularia filamentosa and others). The Aphyllophorales include the agents of wood rot and also house fungi, the destroyers of the wooden parts of structures. A few Aphyllophorales are edible (chanterelles, certain hedgehog mushrooms and fungi of the Clavarias genus, and individual Polyporales). In terms of the structure of the hymenophore and the fruiting body, the order is divided into several families: Thelephoraceae, Clavariaceae, Hydnaceae, Polyporaceae, and others.

REFERENCES

Bondartseva, M. A. Obzor poriadka Aphyllophorales Leningradskoi oblasti. Leningrad, 1963. (Dissertation résumé.)
Stepanova-Kartavenko, N. T. Afilloforovye griby Urala. Sverdlovsk, [1967].

I. I. SIDOROVA

Aphyllophorales

Related to Aphyllophorales: order Aphyllophorales

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Synonyms for Aphyllophorales

noun includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies

Synonyms

order Aphyllophorales

Related Words

fungus order
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycotina
subdivision Basidiomycota
subdivision Basidiomycotina
family Polyporaceae
Polyporaceae
family Fistulinaceae
Fistulinaceae