Helotiales
Common dirt cup Ling Bulgaria inquinans, fruiting bodies
The Helotiales are an order of Ascomycota. They are morphologically very diverse, so individual features in the families are given. Well-known representatives are the gray mold (Botrytis ).
Way of life
The representatives of the Helotiales live as plant pathogens, endophytes, nematophagous fungi, mycorrhiza -forming fungi, as fungal parasites, as terrestrial and aquatic Saprobionten.
System
The representatives of the Helotiales are clearly not natural kinship group, they are paraphyletic. A division into several monophyletic orders in the near future is probable. Eriksson 2006 leads to the following Helotiales families ( with selected genera and species ): The Geoglossaceae belong according to Wang et al. no longer to the Helotiales. They are recently, asked the Geoglossomycetes in its own class.
- Bulgariaceae with the single genus Bulgaria with only one kind: It forms brownish-black to black, gelatinous apothecia.
- Blumeriella
- Calloria
- Chlorosplenium
- Cryptohymenium
- Dermateopsis
- Drepanopeziza
- Involucroscypha
- Leptotrochila
- Obscurodiscus
- Trochila
- Bulgari Ella
- Chlorociboria
- Crumenella
- Erikssonopsis
- Hymenoscyphus
- Ombrophila
- Strossmayeria
- Unguiculariopsis
- Xylogramma
- Sarcotrochila
- Belonidium
- Betulina
- Clavidisculum
- Lachnum
- Olla
- Proliferodiscus
- Unguicularia
- Gelatinipulvinella
- Leotia
- Neobulgaria
- Loramyces: they live aquatic
- Poculum
- Rutstroemia
- Asterocalyx
- Ciboria
- Mitrula
- Phaeosclerotinia
- Sclerotinia
- Vibrissea
- Ascocorticium
The families Hemiphadiaceae, Rutstroemeriaceae and Sclerotiniaceae form by Wang et al. a well-secured monophyletic group. The authors propose the formation of a separate order.