Class Agaricomycetes Doweld

[mushrooms and relatives]

A wide variety of fungi that produce macroscopic fruitbodies, such as gilled mushrooms, boletes, brackets, puffballs, and some jelly fungi. Genomic studies are starting to show relationships between the Orders and some are grouped into Subclasses (ending with -mycetidae).

Agaricomycetidae
1. Agaricales
2. Amylocorticiales
3. Atheliales
4. Boletales
5. Lepidostromatales
Phallomycetidae
1. Geastrales
2. Gomphales
3. Hysterangiales
4. Phallales
unplaced
1. Auriculariales
2. Cantharellales
3. Corticiales
4. Gloeophyllales
5. Hymenochaetales
6. Jaapiales
7. Polyporales
8. Russulales
9. Sebacinales
10. Stereopsidales
11. Thelephorales
12. Trechisporales
13. Tremellodendropsidales

Taxon Details and Links

Nomenclature

Agaricomycetes Doweld, Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum, Tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta): LXXVII (2001). Type: Agaricus L. 1753.

Taxonomy

This group was previously called the homobasidiomycetes because the basidium is not septate (no cross walls), in contrast to the heterobasidiomycetes for jelly fungi, rusts, smuts, that mostly have septate (divided) basidia. This basidium distinction did not completely match with true relationships; the jelly fungi are found in multiple classes. This Class now includes some of the jelly fungi with septate basidia (Auricularia, Sebacina, Tremellodendropsis ).

Description links

Tree of Life (2007)

Wikipedia

Related links

Hibbett, D. S., R. Bauer, M. Binder, A.J. Giachini, K. Hosaka, A. Justo, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, J.D. Lawrey, O. Miettinen, L. Nagy, R.H. Nilsson, M. Weiss, and R.G. Thorn. 2014. Agaricomycetes. Pp. 373–429 In: Systematics and Evolution, Second Edition, The Mycota VII Part A. (D. J. McLaughlin and J. W. Spatafora, Eds.), Springer Verlag. [Chapter 14 and complete volume PDF at Hibbett Lab Publications.]

Taxon links

501297 Agaricomycetes: MycoBank; Index Fungorum

Compare Index Fungorum and Mycobank.