Cerinomycetaceae Dacrymycetaceae Dacryonaemataceae Unilacrymaceae The Dacrymycetes are a class of fungi in the Basidiomycota.

The class currently contains the single order Dacrymycetales, with a second proposed order Unilacrymales now treated at the family level.

Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are ceraceous to gelatinous, typically yellow to orange as a result of carotenoid pigments,[4] and variously corticioid (effused and patch-forming), disc- or cushion-shaped, spathulate, or clavarioid (club or coral-like).

Microscopically, nearly all species have distinctive Y-shaped holobasidia.

[3] Species were formerly placed in the Heterobasidiomycetes and are informally included in the "jelly fungi".