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Physarales
Physarum psittacinum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Physarales T.Macbr., 1922
Families
Didymiaceae Lamprodermataceae Physaraceae

Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae. Physarales was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride and published in 1922.

Undescribed Family

There is evidence of an undescribed family within Physarales that bridges Didymiaceae and Lamprodermataceae, which contains the monotypic genus Tasmaniomyxa.

References

1. Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Schnittler, Martin; Stephenson, Steven L.; Novozhilov, Yuri K.; Shchepin, Oleg N. (2019). "Towards a phylogenetic classification of the Myxomycetes". Phytotaxa. 399 (3): 209. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.399.3.5. ISSN 1179-3163.
2. Macbride TH. (1922). The North American Slime-moulds (2 ed.). New York: Macmillan. p. 22.
3. Lloyd, Sarah J.; Leontyev, Dmitry V.; Moreno, Gabriel; Villalba, Ángela L.; Schnittler, Martin (2023). "Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata, a new genus and new species of myxomycete from Tasmania". Mycologia. 116 (1): 170–183. doi:10.1080/00275514.2023.2274252. ISSN 1557-2536.

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