Phaeotremella Rea, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 3: 377 (1912)
Notes: The genus was established by Rea (1912) with one species, Phaeotremella pseudofoliacea Rea, but it was later considered a synonym of Tremella foliacea Pers. (Donk 1966; Roberts 1999). The viewpoint was accepted by some researchers and some species similar to T. foliacea were described in Tremella Pers. (Donk 1966; Chen 1998; Pippola and Kotiranta 2008; Boekhout et al. 2011; Weiss et al. 2014). The genus Tremella was shown to be polyphyletic based on molecular data and these species similar to T. foliacea (the T. foliacea group) formed a single clade in the phylogenies (Boekhout et al. 2011). Liu et al. (2015a) resurrected the generic name Phaeotremella for the T. foliacea group, which was recognized in later studies (Wedin et al. 2016; Spirin et al. 2017).
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