Corticiaceae [SEP] parent taxon
Corticiaceae
The Corticiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Corticiales. The family formerly included almost all the corticioid (patch- or crust-forming) fungi, whether they were related or not, and as such was highly artificial. In its current sense, however, the name Corticiaceae is restricted to a comparatively small group of mainly corticioid genera within the Corticiales, though the family is as yet not well defined.
Taxonomy.
Taxonomy History.
The German mycologist Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter first published the Corticiaceae in 1910
In this wide sense, the boundaries of the Corticiaceae were never clearly defined. It was sometimes separated from the Stereaceae, a family in which fruitbodies had a tendency to form pilei (caps or brackets), but often these two artificial families were united. In this united sense, the Corticiaceae certainly included the genera and species treated in the standard, 8-volume reference work "The Corticiaceae of North Europe" (1972-1987), where it was acknowledged that the family was "not a natural taxon but an assemblage of