The Mrakiaceae are a
family
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of fungi in the order
Cystofilobasidiales
The Cystofilobasidiales are an order of fungi in the class Tremellomycetes of the Basidiomycota. They usually exhibit a life phase of free-living yeasts. The order contains two families with seven genera and some 25 species
In biology, ...
.
Phylogenetic
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...
analyses shows that this family is clearly distinct from other yeast-like families of the
Tremellomycetes
The Tremellomycetes are a class of dimorphic fungi in the Agaricomycotina. Some species have gelatinous basidiocarps (fruiting bodies) or (microscopically) a sacculate parenthesome. There are six orders, 17 families, and 39 genera in the Tremel ...
. The family had six
genera
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in 2015.
Genera
As accepted by
GBIF
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and
Species Fungorum;
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Itersonilia'' (4)
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Krasilnikovozyma'' (11)
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Mrakia'' (22)
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Phaffia'' (1)
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Rhodomyces'' (1)
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Tausonia'' (5)
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Udeniomyces'' (15)
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Vustinia''
Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per family.
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References
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Tremellomycetes
Mrakiaceae