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

Boletaceae: hymenophore porose, removeable from the pileus; basidiocarp monomitic.

Boletus aereus (left); Boletus edulis (middle, right)

Tylopilus (brown spores and hymenophore) Leccinum (scabrosities on stipe)

Suillus : Left: Suillus brevipes; Middle: Suillus punctatipes with glandular dots at stipe apex. Right: Suillus caerulescens showing the removeable hymenophore.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina