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The Classification of the Tremellales

1945; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00275514.1945.12024012

1557-2536

G. W. Martin,

Lichen and fungal ecology

The classification of the Tremellales cannot be considered without reference to that of the Basidiomycetes as a whole, since the limits of the order, its presumed relationships with other orders and the interrelationships between its subdivisions are all parts of the larger problem. It seems desirable, therefore, to review briefly the varying concepts of the Basidiomycetes which have found more or less acceptance during the past two generations. The treatment of the fungi in the earlier editions of Sachs's Lehrbuch (27) may be regarded as representing the viewpoint widely held at the beginning of the modern period. Sachs divided the fungi into four major groups, the Phycomycetes, the Hypodermiae (rusts and smuts), the Basidiomycetes and the Ascomycetes. In Goebel's adaptation of the Sachs text (18) the major groups were increased to six by the addition of the Chytridieae and the separation of the smuts and rusts, the former relegated to a place between the chytrids and the Phycomycetes; the latter put between the Ascomycetes and the Basidiomycetes. In both, the lichens are included in the Ascomycetes and the Myxomycetes are set apart from the other groups.