Families in the Aphyllophorales:

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

Corticiaceae: basidomes effuso-reflexed or resupinate, hymenophore variable, smooth, wrinkled, warty, or bluntly spinose; spores hyaline or pale in color, inamyloid. Resupinate members with brown, double-walled, cyanophilic sores are placed into the Coniophoraceae. The Stereaceae differs by having basidiomes with a pileipellis and a cortex.

Phebia radiata.

Schizophyllaceae.: basidiomes cup-shaped in origin, pileate and sessile when mature (in Schizophyllum) or remaining cup-shaped (e. g. in Henningsomyces); hymenophore composed of 'split gills'

Schizophyllum commune. Illustrations show the hairy pileus on the left and the the split gills with fibrils in the slits on the right. Typically found on conifers or hardwoods

Meruliaceae: often put in with the Corticiaceae. However the merulioid hymenophore and fleshy, monomitic basidiomes are unusual.

Merulius tremellosus. Typically on dead wood of flowering plants.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina