Chorioactidaceae
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| Chorioactidaceae | |
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| Chorioactis geaster | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Chorioactidaceae Pfister (2008) |
| Type genus | |
| Chorioactis Kupfer (1902) | |
| Genera | |
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Chorioactis | |
The Chorioactidaceae are a family of cup fungi in the order Pezizales, first described to contain seven species distributed among five genera.[1] Pseudosarcosoma was added in 2013 to contain P. latahense when molecular phylogenetic studies demonstrated the fungus to be more closely related to the Chorioactidaceae than to Sarcosoma (family Sarcosomataceae).[2] With the addition of Trichaleurina, the genus is currently composed of six genera.[3]
Ecologically, taxa in this family are saprotrophic, and inhabit temperate and subtropical regions.[3]
