Clades:
Polyporomycetes.
Members: 150 species
Mycology: mostly corticioid fungi; mostly saprotrophic, wood-rotters on dead attached branches; several parasitic on grasses or lichens.
TaxonomyThe Swedish mycologist Karl-Henrik Larsson established
Corticiales in 2007, based on molecular phylogenetic research.
FamiliesCorticiaceae: Acantholichen, Ambivina, Amylobasidium, Capillosclerotium, Corticirama, Corticium, Cytidia, Dendrodontia, Dendrophysellum, Dendrothele, Erythricium, Galzinia, Hallenbergia, Hemmesomyces, Kurtia, Laetisaria, Lawreymyces, Leptocorticium, Limonomyces, Marchandiobasidium, Marchandiomyces, Melzerodontia, Mutatoderma, Necator, Nothocorticium, Papyrodiscus, Ripexicium, Tretopileus, Vuilleminia.
DendrominiaceaeGenus: Dendrominia.
Punctulariaceae: Dendrocorticium, Punctularia, Punctulariopsis.Vuilleminiaceae: Australovuilleminia, Cytidia, Marchandiopsis, Vuilleminia.
Waitea circinata, a pathogen of cereal crops.Laetisaria fuciformis, causing red thread disease in turf grass.
Marchandiomphalina foliacea, an anomalous agaricoid species.
Marchandiobasidium and Marchandiomyces are parasites of lichens.
Marchandiomphalina foliacea is lichenized.