Hyaloscyphaceae [SEP] parent taxon
Hyaloscyphaceae
The Hyaloscyphaceae are a family of fungi in the Helotiales order. Species in this family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are saprobic, growing on dead wood and other plant matter.
Genera.
According to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, the following 69 genera are in the family Hyaloscyphaceae. Those with a question mark preceding the name have an uncertain taxonomic placement.
"Albotricha" —
"Amicodisca" —
"Antinoa" —
?"Arachnopeziza" —
"Asperopilum" —
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Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of