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

Paxillaceae: hymenophore easily removeable from the pileus; basidiospores brown.

• Left: Paxillus involutus (clitocyboid); Middle: Paxillus panuoides (pleurotoid); Right: Paxillus atrotomentosus (showing removeable gills)

Hygrophoraceae: basidiospores light colored; basidia are extremely long, about 5.5-8.0 times longer than the spores; gills are typically thick and waxy.

• Left: Hygrophorus camarophyllus (decurrent gills); Right: Hygrophorus eburneus (thick waxy gills that are decurrent)

gill trama: Left: divergent; Middle: interwoven; Right: parallel			hymenium	long basidium with clamps	clamps and basidioles

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina