BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser - Neolectomycetes {class}

Neolecta is a genus of ascomycetous fungi that have fruiting bodies in the shape ofunbranched to lobed bright yellowish, orangish to pale yellow-green colored, club-shaped, smooth, fleshy columnsup to about 7 cm tall. The species share the English designation "Earth tongues" along with some better-known fungi (e.g.Geoglossum, Microglossum) with a similar general form, but in fact they are only distantly related. Neolecta is the only genus belonging to the family Neolectaceae, which is the only family belonging to the order Neolectales. Neolectales, in turn, is the only order belonging to the class Neolectomycetes, which belongs to the subdivision Taphrinomycotina of the Ascomycota. full article at Wikipedia