With some exceptions, most gelatinous or ‘jelly’ fungi are basidiomycetes in the Auriculales, Dacrymycetales or the Tremellales orders. Those in the Tremellales are parasitic on the mycelium of other fungi within their mutually inhabited wood substrates. The others are exclusively saprotrophic on decaying wood. Calostoma cinnabarina is somewhat gelatinous and included here for that reason, however it is considered a gastromycete like the puffballs and earth stars. Unlike the other gelatinous fungi included in this category, it is a mycorrhizal fungus related to the boletes.
Auricularia angiospermarum
AURICULARIA____americana (auricula)____anfuscosuccinea
DACRYMYCES____chrysospermus (palmatus)____stillatus
EXIDIA____crenata (recisa)____nigricans____nucleata (see MYXARIUM nucleatum)____recisa (See E. crenata)
GUEPINIOPSIS____alpina____buccina
HYDNOPHLEBIA____chrysohiza (Oxydontia chrysorhiza)
MYXARIUM (Exidia)____nucleatum
PHLEBIA____radiata____tremellosa
SEBACINA____incrustans____schweinitzii____sparassoidea
TREMELLA____aurantia____foliacea____fuciformis____mesenterica
TREMELLODENRON (See SEBACINA)____schweinitzii (pallida)