This family consists of small to medium-sized, gelatinous, and somewhat soft, translucent, jelly‑like fruitbodies saprophytic fungi. With fruit-bodies borne on dead wood or corse twigy material.
Genus: Myxarium
A cosmopolitan genus of wood-rotting basidiomycetes. Fruitbodies are gelatinous, effused, pustular, or occasionally cerebriform.
All species occur on dead wood or dead herbaceous stems.
Myxarium species
Genus: Pseudohydnum
Growing singly with short stalks or scattered gregariously in overlapping clusters, are gelatinous in texture with the lower surface mimicking a toothed fungus, of which two species occurs in New Zealand.
Myxarium species
