Hymenochaetaceae

Hymenochaetaceae
Hymenochaete cruenta, a member of the Hymenochaetaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Hymenochaetaceae Imazeki & Toki (1954)
Type genus
Hymenochaete Lév. (1846)
Genera
see text

The Hymenochaetaceae are a family of fungi in the order Hymenochaetales. The family contains several species that are implicated in many diseases of broad-leaved and coniferous trees, causing heart rot, canker and root diseases, and also esca disease of grapevines.^[1] According to a standard reference text, the family contains 27 genera and 487 species.^[2]

Genera

• †Appianoporites (Eocene)
• Asterodon
• Aurificaria
• Botryodontia
• Clavariachaete
• Coltricia
• Coltriciella
• Cyclomyces
• Deviodontia
• Dichochaete
• Erythromyces
• Fomitiporia
• Fulvifomes
• Fuscoporia
• Hydnochaete
• Hymenochaete
• Hymenochaetopsis^[3]
• Inocutis
• Inonotopsis
• Inonotus
• Onnia
• Phellinidium
• Phellinus
• Phellopilus
• Phellinopsis
• Phylloporia
• Polystictus
• †Quatsinoporites (Late Cretaceous)
• Porodaedalea
• Pseudochaete
• Pseudoinonotus
• Pyrrhoderma
• Tropicoporus
• Tubulicrinis

References

1. Cannon PF, Kirk PM. (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford UK: CAB International. pp. 167–168. ISBN 0-85199-827-5.
2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
3. Yang J, Dai L-D, He H-S. (2016). "Hymenochaetopsis nom. nov. proposed to replace Pseudochaete (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) with descriptions of H. laricicola sp. nov and H. gigasetosa new to China". Mycological Progress 15. doi:10.1007/s11557-015-1153-9.