Physarales

Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae.^[1] Physarales was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride and published in 1922.^[2]

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

Undescribed Family

There is evidence of an undescribed family within Physarales that bridges Didymiaceae and Lamprodermataceae, which contains the monotypic genus Tasmaniomyxa.^[3]