{{Short description|Family of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Botryobasidiaceae | image = 2012-04-28 Botryobasidium subcoronatum (Höhn. & Litsch.) Donk 215384.jpg | image_caption = ''Botryobasidium subcoronatum'' | taxon = Botryobasidiaceae | authority = (Parm.) Jülich (1982) | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''Botryobasidium''<br> ''Suillosporium'' | synonyms = Botryobasidioideae <small>Parm. (1968) </small><br> Botryohypochnoideae <small>Parm. (1968) </small><br> Botryohypochnaceae <small>(Parm.) Jülich (1982) </small> }}
The '''Botryobasidiaceae''' are a family of fungi in the order Cantharellales. The family contains a group of corticioid fungi that form thin, web-like basidiocarps. Some species form asexual anamorphs producing chlamydospores. All are believed to be wood-rotting or litter-rotting saprotrophs. None is known to be of any economic importance.
==Taxonomy==
===History=== The name Botryobasidioideae was first introduced as a subfamily of the Corticiaceae in 1958 by Swedish mycologist John Eriksson, but was not fully described and validly published until taken up by Estonian mycologist Erast Parmasto in 1968. Parmasto placed the genera ''Botryobasidium'' (together with the anamorphic genus ''Oidium'') and ''Uthatobasidium'' within the subfamily, noting that they shared certain "primitive" characters linking them to the Ceratobasidiaceae and Tulasnellaceae.<ref name="Parmasto1968"/>
In 1982 Jülich raised the subfamily to the rank of family, as the Botryobasidiaceae, and placed it in a new order, the Botryobasidiales (which also included the family Botryohypochnaceae). A standard 1995 reference work included within the Botryobasidiaceae the corticioid genera ''Botryobasidium'', ''Botryodontia'', ''Botryohypochnus'' (considered a synonym of ''Botryobasidium''), ''Candelabrochaete'', ''Suillosporium'', and ''Waitea'', based mainly on similarities in their basidiocarp micromorphology. The family was placed in the order Stereales.<ref name="Dictionary1995" />
===Current status=== Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed the Botryobasidiaceae as a separate family, but restricted to the genus ''Botryobasidium'', including its anamorphs and ''Botryohypochnus''. The family is placed alongside the Ceratobasidiaceae and Tulasnellaceae within the order Cantharellales.<ref name="Moncalvoetal2006"/><ref name="Larsson2007"/> Genera previously included within the Botryobasidiaceae have now been placed in the Corticiales (''Waitea''), Hymenochaetales (''Botryodontia''), and Polyporales (''Candelabrochaete''). The disposition of ''Suillosporium'' is as yet unknown.<ref name="Larsson2007"/>
==Habitat and distribution== According to a 2008 estimate, the Botryobasidiaceae contains around 80 species worldwide.<ref name="Kirk2008"/> Species are assumed to be wood- and litter-rotting saprotrophs and are typically found on the undersides of fallen, rotting branches in woodland leaf litter. Basidiocarps are thin and ephemeral.<ref name="Langer1994"/> None is known to be of any economic importance.<ref name="Cannonetal2007"/>
==References== {{Reflist|2|refs=
<ref name="Parmasto1968">{{cite book |author=Parmasto E. |title=Conspectus systematis Corticiacearum |publisher=Acad. Sci. Estonicae |location=Tartu |year=1968 }}</ref>
<ref name="Dictionary1995">{{cite book |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=8th |veditors=Hawksworth DL, Kirk PM, Sutton BC, Pegler DN |year=1995 |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, Oxford |isbn= 0-85198-885-7 }}</ref>
<ref name="Moncalvoetal2006">{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/15572536.2006.11832623 |author=Moncalvo J-M |year=2006 |title=The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods |journal=Mycologia |volume=98 |issue=6 |pages=937–948 |pmid=17486970 |display-authors=etal}} {{cite web |url=http://www1.univap.br/drauzio/index_arquivos/Myco11.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-12-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162341/http://www1.univap.br/drauzio/index_arquivos/Myco11.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 }}</ref>
<ref name="Larsson2007">{{cite journal | author=Larsson K.-H. | year=2007 | title=Re-thinking the classification of corticioid fungi | journal=Mycological Research | volume=111 | issue=9 | pages=1040–1063 | doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2007.08.001 | pmid=17981020}}</ref>
<ref name="Kirk2008">{{cite book |veditors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, Oxford |year=2008 }}</ref>
<ref name="Langer1994">{{cite book |author=Langer G. |title=Die Gattung ''Botryobasidium'' Donk (Biblio. Mycol. 158) |publisher=J. Cramer |location=Berlin |year=1994 |isbn=3-443-59060-8}}</ref>
<ref name="Cannonetal2007">{{cite book |vauthors=Cannon PF, Kirk PM|title=Fungal families of the world|publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, Oxford |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-85199-827-5}}</ref>
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Category:Cantharellales Category:Basidiomycota families