Hypocreales

Hypocreales
Tolypocladium capitatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales Lindau (1897)
Families
Bionectriaceae Cordycipitaceae Clavicipitaceae Hypocreaceae Nectriaceae Niessliaceae Ophiocordycipitaceae

The Hypocreales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, consisting of seven families, 237 genera, and 2647 species.^[1]

Species of Hypocreales are usually recognized by their brightly colored, perithecial ascomata, or spore-producing structures. These are often yellow, orange or red.

Genera incertae sedis

According to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, the following genera within the Hypocreales have an uncertain taxonomic placement (incertae sedis), and have not been assigned to any family.^[2]

• Bulbithecium
• Emericellopsis
• †Entropezites^[3]
• Escovopsis
• Geosmithia
• Hapsidospora
• Leucosphaerina
• Metadothella
• †Mycetophagites^[3]
• Nigrosabulum
• Payosphaeria
• Peethambara
• Peloronectria
• Pseudomeliola
• Scopinella
• Ticonectria
• Tilakidium
• Ustilaginoidea

References

1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 332. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 31, 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
3. Poinar GO, Buckley R (2007). "Evidence of mycoparasitism and hypermycoparasitism in Early Cretaceous amber". Mycological Research. 111 (4): 503–506. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.02.004. PMID 17512712.