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


Tricholomataceae: basidiospores white; gills attached; sphaerocysts absent in the trama of the pileus
Cystoderma fallax polycystoderm of Cystoderma Catathelasma ventricosa Hygrophoropsis aurantiacus Tricholoma flavovirens
Lentinus kauffmani Omphalotus olivascens Pleurotus ostreatus Pleurocybella porrigens Tricholoma magnivelare
Xeromphalina campanella Phytoconis ericetorum Mycena griseoviridis


classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina