🍄 Family

Hypocreaceae

10 species · Fungi

Fungi › Ascomycota › Sordariomycetes › Hypocreales › Hypocreaceae

Hypomyces lactifluorum, the lobster mushroom, is a parasitic fungus that grows on host mushrooms and is a popular edible.

Hypomyces luteovirens is a parasitic fungus that grows as a colored crust on gilled Russula and Lactarius mushrooms.

Hypomyces chrysospermus, the bolete eater, is a parasitic ascomycete that infects boletes, used in traditional Chinese medicine for bleeding control.

Hypomyces hyalinus is a parasitic ascomycete fungus that infects Amanita fungi, with a broad recorded geographic distribution.

Hypomyces lateritius, the ochre gillgobbler, is a parasitic ascomycete that infects various Lactarius mushrooms worldwide.

Hypomyces papulasporae is a parasitic Hypocreales ascomycete new to science in 1985, found growing on black earth tongues in New Zealand.

Trichoderma viride is a naturally occurring fungus used as a biofungicide for biological control of plant pathogenic fungi.

Trichoderma cornu-damae is a toxic fungus found across East Asia and Oceania that has caused fatal human poisonings in Japan.

Hypocreopsis lichenoides is a parasitic fungus found across several continents, with recent conservation work in Great Britain.

Hypocreopsis rhododendri, commonly called hazel gloves, is an ascomycete fungus found in western Europe and eastern North America.

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