Heterobasidiomycetes Class

The Heterobasidiomycetes Class is split into smaller groups, called Orders. Below is a list of some Heterobasidiomycetes Orders:

Tremellales Order: Includes Jelly Fungi. Some examples are: Witches' Butter, Apricot Jelly, and Black Jelly Roll.

Auriculariales Order: Includes Ear Mushrooms, some of which are edible. Example: Tree-Ear.

All of the Orders above have been split into smaller groups, called Families. Families are then split into Genera. Remember, as each group gets smaller, organisms in that group are more and more alike. Each Genus will contain individual Species.

Information on specific Families and Genera is not included on this website, but you can find out which groups a species belongs to by checking the Classification Box at the bottom of each Species Page. See the example of Witches' Butter below:

Witches' Butter:

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM
Fungi
DIVISION
Basidomycota
CLASS
Heterobasidomycetes
ORDER
Tremellales
FAMILY
Tremellaceae
GENUS
Tremella
SPECIES
Tremella mesenterica

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