Tremellales

An order of the *Hymenomycetes containing fungi that produce gelatinous basidiocarps, hence the common name gelatinous or jelly fungi. These number about 200 species (26 genera) and and are usually found growing on dead wood. They have characteristic rounded basidia divided by septa into four cells. Typical examples are witches' butter (Exidia glandulosa) and the yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica). In some classifications the Tremellales are included in the *Teliomycetes.