Clades:
Agaricomycetes.
Region: cosmopolitan.
Members: 2 families; 18 genera; 250 species.
Mycology: includes corticioid fungi, hydnoid fungi, few polypores and clavarioid species; mostly ectomycorrhizal; diverse basidiocarp forms; basidiospore shape spiny to warted, often lobed spores; basidiocarp colours.
Content: thelephoric acid, giving blue to greenish reactions with alkalis.
Sarcodon imbricatus is edible.
Use: for craft dyeing, wool.
TaxonomyThe German mycologist Franz Oberwinkler in 1976 first described
Thelephorales,encompassing the families Thelephoraceae and Bankeraceae.
Polyozellus multiplex is edible.Hydnellum caeruleum for dyeing.
Sarcodon squamosus for dyeing.
Thelephora palmata for dyeing.
ThelephoralesClades:
Polyporomycetes;
Basidiomycota;
Fungi;
Plants.
FamiliesThe Bankeraceae are terrestrial, ectomycorrhizal fungi, growing on
Pinaceae or
Fagaceae.
Bankeraceae: 6 genera; 98 species; Bankera, Boletopsis, Corneroporus, Hydnellum, Phellodon, Sarcodon.
The Thelephoraceae are a family of fungi, commonly known as the "leathery earthfans".
Thelephoraceae: Amaurodon, Entolomina, Lenzitopsis, Pleurobasidium, Polyozellus, Pseudotomentella, Skepperia, Thelephora, Tomentella, Tomentellago, Tomentellopsis.
Uncertain: Friesula, Thelephorella.