Adustochaete Amphistereum Aporpium Auricularia Eichleriella Elmerina Exidia Exidiopsis Fibulosebacea Heterochaete Heterocorticium Heteroradulum Hirneolina Proterochaete Protodaedalea Sclerotrema Tremellochaete Aporpiaceae Bondartsev & Bondartseva (1960) Exidiaceae R.T.Moore (1978) The Auriculariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Auriculariales.

Species within the family were formerly referred to the "heterobasidiomycetes" or "jelly fungi", since many have gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that produce spores on septate basidia.

In 1922, British mycologist Carleton Rea recognized the family as containing the genera Auricularia, Eocronartium, Helicobasidium, Platygloea, and Stilbum.

[2][3] A radical revision was undertaken in 1984, when American mycologist Robert Joseph Bandoni used transmission electron microscopy to investigate the ultrastructure of the septal pore apparatus in the Auriculariales.

[4] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed that the Auriculariaceae belong within the order Auriculariales, but has also indicated that the family is not distinguishable from the Exidiaceae.