Exidia Fr.
(brain fungi)

Subtaxon	Rank	No of images	No of ID refs
Exidia glandulosa Witches’ Butter	Species	25 images
Exidia nucleata Crystal Brain	Species	8 images	3 ident. refs
Exidia recisa Amber Jelly	Species		1 ident. refs
Exidia saccharina Pine Jelly	Species		1 ident. refs
Exidia thuretiana White Brain	Species	6 images	1 ident. refs
Exidia (unidentified) Unidentified Brain Fungi	Unidentified	5 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Exidia (brain fungi)
Family	AURICULARIACEAE (a family of jelly fungi)
Order	AURICULARIALES (an order of jelly fungi)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Exidia is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Auriculariaceae)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Anon.		Digital Exsiccate of Fungi 1995	www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/bbm/mycology/homepage.htm
Dickson, G., Kirk, P, Roberts, P. & Spooner, B.		British fungi - Keys	www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/keys.asp
Roberts, P.	2001	A key to British Exidia species	Field Mycology Vol 2 (4): 134-135.
Roberts, P.		Key to Exidia	194.203.77.76/fieldmycology/GBCHKLST/key.asp?KeyId=9

Exidia (brain fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AURICULARIALES
(an order of jelly fungi)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Exidia (brain fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 72 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Exidia (brain fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Exidia is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)