Liceales

The majority of species have spores brightly coloured to dingy olivaceous in mass. Fruiting bodies are structurally simple, lacking characters found in other orders; no columella, no calcium carbonate, and no true capillitium associated with the mature fruiting body. Capillitial threads are present in two monotypic genera, Kelleromyxa and Listerella. The so-called pseudocapillitium found in some taxa in this group needs to be evaluated on the basis of ultrastructural and developmental studies. This order represents a heterogeneous assemblage of probably unrelated taxa. Modern methods of DNA analysis are needed to evaluate the phylogenetic relationships of members of this order.

Liceales (also Liceida) is an order of Amoebozoa.