AGARICALES: hymenophore either lamellate or porose; if porose, the tubes are easily removed from the pileus; basidiocarp fleshy, typically monomitic, rarely dimitic. In the modern sense, the boletes are placed in their own order, the Boletales.

Families: Agaricaceae, Amanitaceae, Bolbitiaceae, Boletaceae, Coprinaceae, Cortinariaceae, Entolomataceae, Gomphidiaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Lepiotaceae, Paxillaceae, Pluteaceae, Russulaceae, Strophariaceae, Tricholomataceae

Bolbitiaceae: basidiospores rusty brown and with an apical germ pores; pileus cuticle a derm (the hyphae are arranged perpendicular to the pileus surface and appear cellular in view (i.e. they look like parenchyma cells)

• Left: Conocybe sp.; Right: Conocybe tenera.

Coprinaceae: basidiospores purple brown to black and with an apical germ pore; pileus cuticle a derm

• Left: hymenium of Coprinus showing tiers of basidia and pavement cells. Middle: Coprinus comatus. Right: cellular pileipellis of Coprinus.
• Psathyrella hydrophila group. Cellular pileipellis of Psathyrella.
• For an apical germ pore

classification for Basidiomycotina

rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina