Families in the Aphyllophorales:

Auriscalpiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavariaceae, Corticiaceae, Echinodontiaceae, Fistulinaceae, Ganodermataceae, Gomphaceae, Hericiaceae, Hydnaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Schizophyllaceae, Sparassidaceae; Stereaceae, Thelephoraceae

Cantharellaceae: hymenophore in the form of blunt edged ridges or wrinkled; spores smooth, colorless, not cyanophilic.

• Cantharellus: hymenophore wrinkled to ridged, pallid to yellowish or pinkish; spores hyaline; clamp connections present
• Craterellus: hymenophore wrinkled, vinaceous, purplish, or gray; spores hyaline or buff to yellowish; clamp connections absent.

Gomphaceae: . basidiocarp fleshy; hymenophore merulioid-like, wrinkled to almost smooth; spores yellowish-brown in deposite, rough, cyanophilic.

• Gomphus clavatus ('pig's ears) on the left with lilac to grey hymenophore; Gomphus floccosus on the right with reddish-orange pileus.

Thelephoraceae: basidiomes terrestrial, humicolous, or a few lignicolous; hymenophore smooth, warty, wrinkled, or spinose; spores ornamented, typically brown, non-amyloid, and non-cyanophilous; dark context becomes green with KOH due to thelephoric acid.

Thelephora terrestris groups

Hydnellum peckii. Hydnellum is characterized by having basidiomes with an indeterminate growth pattern and bumpy, brown spores.

Sarcodon imbricatum. Sarcodon is characterized by having basidiomes with a determiante growth pattern and bumpy, brown spores.

Phellodon is characterized by having basidiomes with an indeterminate growth pattern and echinulate, colorless spores; because of its spore color, it has been placed into its own family, the Bankeraceae. However, the Bankeraceae is not covered in your textbook.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina