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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina
Classis: Agaricomycetes
Ordo: Auriculariales
Familia: Oliveoniaceae
Genus: Oliveonia
Name
Oliveoniaceae

The Oliveoniaceae are a family of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps (fruit bodies) with aseptate basidia producing basidiospores that give rise to secondary spores. All species are believed to be saprotrophic, most growing on dead wood.[1]
References

Roberts P. (1998). "Oliveonia and the origin of the holobasidiomycetes". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 33: 127–132.

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