APHYLLOPHORALES: hymenophore spinose, wrinkled, pitted, smooth; if lamellate the basidiocarp typically dimitic or trimitic, rarely monomitic; if porose the hymenophore not removeable from the pileus and the basidiocarp typically dimitic or trimitic.

• Auriscalpiaceae: in California most typically characterized by a basidiocarp with a laterally attached stipe, a spinose hymenophore, a woody consistency, and a habitat growing out of conifer cones; pileus hirsute; dimitic; gloeocystidia darkening in sulpho-aldehyde; spores amyloid, minutely echinulate.
• Cantharellaceae: hymenophore in the form of blunt edged ridges or wrinkled. 1. Cantharellus: hymenophore wrinkled to ridged; spores yellowish
• Clavariaceae: hymenophore amphigenous (i.e. located on all surfaces of the basidiocarp) and basidiocarp negatively geotropic (i.e., growing away from the ground)
• 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.
• Echinodontiaceae: in our area, basidiocarp tough and woody; dimitic with skeletal; hymenophore in the form of teeth which have rounded apices; smooth, hyaline, amyloid.
• Fistulinaceae: basidiocarp fleshy; hymenophore of crowded tubes which free, i. e., not fused laterally; spores hyaline.
• Ganodermataceae: hymenophore porose; basidiocarp surface usually hard and often varnished; basidiospores with spines located from the inner wall but not projecting out of the outer wall.
• Gomphaceae: . basidiocarp fleshy; hymenophore wrinkled to almost smooth; spores yellowish-brown in deposite.
• Hericiaceae: basidiomes typically highly branched; hymenophore spinose; monomitic; gloeocystidia not darkening in chemicals; spores colorless, asperulate, and amyloid.
• Hydnaceae: hymenophore spinose
• Hymenochaetaceae: hymenophore smooth; hymenium with thick wall, pointed cells which turn black in KOH
• Meruliaceae: basidiocarp effuso-reflexed to resupinate; hymenophore merulioid, in the form of pits.
• Polyporaceae: hymenophore tubular, not removeable from the pileus; basidiocarp dimitic; no setae
• 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'
• Sparassidaceae: basidiome stalked and branched into wavy lobes with hymenium on underside, monomitic; spores colorless, inamyloid.
• Stereaceae: hhymenophore smooth; basidiomes effuso-reflexed or resupinate, dimitic or rarely trimitic; spores smooth, hyaline, amyloid or inamyloid. Typically the basidiomes have a complicated anatomy with a pileipellisand a context.
• Thelephoraceae: basidiomes terrestrial, humicolous, or a few lignicolous; hymenophore smooth, warty, or wrinkled; spores ornamented, typically brown, non-amyloid, and non-cyanophilous; dark context becomes green with KOH due to thelephoric acid.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina