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AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)

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NBN NBN (www.searchnbn.net) has the UK distribution map of AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)

FRDBI FRDBI (www.fieldmycology.net/gbchklst/gbchklst.asp) has the UK and Ireland records of AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #refs #webs
Family AGARICACEAE Chevall., 1826 (mushrooms, dapperlings and parasols) 112 164 380
Family BOLBITIACEAE Singer, 1948 (fieldcap and conecap toadstools) 28 32 118
Family CLAVARIACEAE Chevall., 1826 (fairy clubs) 29 29 94
Family COPRINACEAE Overeem & Weese, 1924 (ink cap toadstools) 14 25 33
Family CORTINARIACEAE R. Heim ex Pouzar, 1983 (webcaps, rootshanks and the gypsy) 93 101 420
Family CYPHELLACEAE Lotsy, 1907 (a family of cyphelloid fungi) 1    
Species Cheimonophyllum candidissimum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Singer, 1955 (an ear fungus)   2 3
Species Seticyphella tenuispora Agerer, 1983 (a cyphelloid fungus)     3
Family ENTOLOMATACEAE Kotl. & Pouzar, 1972 (pinkgills) 77 81 306
Family FISTULINACEAE Lotsy, 1907 (a family of bracket fungi) 1   11
Family HYDNANGIACEAE Gäum. & C.W. Dodge, 1928 (a family of toadstools) 8 19 23
Family HYGROPHORACEAE (waxcaps and woodwaxes) 61 73 161
Family INOCYBACEAE (a family of toadstools) 73 80 472
Family LYOPHYLLACEAE (a family of toadstools) 24 26 145
Family MARASMIACEAE Roze ex Kühner, 1980 (a family of toadstools) 69 120 627
Family MYCENACEAE (bonnt toadstools and their allies) 53 57 459
Family NIACEAE Jülich, 1982 (a family of marine basidiomycetes)     1
Family NIDULARIACEAE Dumort., 1822 (bird's nest fungi) 4 5 42
Family OMPHALOTACEAE Bresinsky, 1985 (a family of toadstools) 1 5 9
Species Panaeolina foenisecii (Pers.) Maire, 1933 (Brown Mottlegill, Haymaker)   5  
Genus Panaeolus (Fr.) Quél., 1872 (mottlegill toadstools) 7 17 19
Family PHYSALACRIACEAE Corner, 1970 (a family of chanterelles) 3 13 67
Family PLEUROTACEAE Kühner, 1980 (oyster fungi) 9 22 96
Family PLUTEACEAE Kotl. & Pouzar, 1972 (a family of toadstools) 60 127 388
Family PSATHYRELLACEAE (Singer) Vilgalys, Moncalvo & Redhead, 2001 (a family of inkcap and brittlestem toadstools) 104 158 409
Family PTERULACEAE Corner, 1970 (a family of coral fungi) 4 3 37
Family SCHIZOPHYLLACEAE Quél., 1888 (a family of basidiomycete fungi) 5 11 31
Family STROPHARIACEAE Singer & A.H. Sm., 1946 (a family of toadstools) 102 187 634
Family TRICHOLOMATACEAE R. Heim ex Pouzar, 1983 (a family of toadstools) 122 217 509
Family TYPHULACEAE Jülich, 1982 (a family of minute club fungi) 5 4 118

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Gruppo Micologico <<G. Bresadola>> di Trento - image gallery: http://www.mtsn.tn.it/bresadola/gallery_index.asp Gruppo Micologico <<G. Bresadola>> di Trento - image gallery
Swedish Fungi: http://swefungi.se/swindex.html Swedish Fungi
Bon, M., 1997 Clitocybes, Omphales et ressemblants
Bon, M., 1999 Les Collybio-Marasmioides et ressemblants
Bresadola, G., 1927 Iconographia Mycologica
Henderson, D.M., Orton, P.D. & Watling, R., 1969 Agarics and Boleti - Introduction
Lange, J.E., 1935 Flora Agaricina Danica (5 volumes)
Marchand, A., 1971 Champignons du Nord et du Midi (8 volumes)
McAdam, A., 2007 Keys to the genera of Agarics and Boletes
Machiel's Website: http://www.entoloma.nl/ Machiel's Website
Orton, P.D., 1960 New Checklist of British Agarics and Boleti - Part III: Notes on genera and species in the list
Morphing Mushroom Identifier: http://www.mycokey.com/newMycoKeySite/MycoKeyIdentQuick.html Morphing Mushroom Identifier

General Works

Bond, T.E.T., 1952 A further note on size and form in Agarics
Cullington, P., 2006 Using gill attachment as an identification aid
Dennis, R.W.G., Orton, P.D. & Hora, F.B., 1960 New Checklist of British Agarics and Boleti
Henrici, A., 2012 Notes and Records (July 2012)
Ingold, C.T., 1985 Rapid spore-germination in some Agarics
Orton, P.D., 1986 Fungi of Northern Pine and Birch woods

Fairy rings

Gregory, P.H., 1982 Fairy rings; free and tethered

Medical

Watling, R., 1997 Poisoning by fungi: interesting cases.

Nature conservation

Marriot, J.V.R., 2005 A tool for the assessment of agaric site diversity

Species richness

Hack, J.E., 1983 Frequency distributions of Agaricales from BMS forays consisting of single visits to many localities compared with repeated visits to one locality
Orton, P.D. & Tofts, R., 1998 The Species Accumulation Curve for Agarics and Boleti from a Caledonian Pinewood.
Rayner, R.W., 1979 The frequencies with which Basidiomycete species other than rusts and smuts, have been recorded on B.M.S. forays

AGARICALES may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

AGARICALES is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Agaricales listed at higher taxonomic level

FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)

Associated with AGARICALES:

basidiome (decayed) decayed basidiome is decayed by fruitbody Dendrocollybia racemosa - Branched Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
basidiome (decaying) decaying basidiome is decayed by fruitbody Collybia cirrhata - Piggyback Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
basidiome (mummified) mummified basidiome is decayed by fruitbody Collybia cirrhata - Piggyback Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
basidiome (mummified) mummified basidiome is decayed by fruitbody Dendrocollybia racemosa - Branched Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody (old) old fruitbody is parasitised by subiculate perithecium Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody (old) old fruitbody is parasitised by Cladobotryum anamorph Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody (old) old fruitbody is decayed by effuse colony of Amblyosporium anamorph Amblyosporium spongiosum - an anamorphic fungus Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody (rotting) rotting fruitbody is decayed by synnema of Tilachlidium anamorph Tilachlidium brachiatum - an anamorphic fungus (Hypocreales) UK/Ireland Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by colony of Penicillium anamorph Penicillium aurantiogriseum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by compact colony of Penicillium anamorph Penicillium brevicompactum - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by subiculate, gregarious perithecium Hypomyces viridis - an ascomycete fungus (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
stipe, fruitbody stipe of fruitbody is parasitised by fruitbody Squamanita pearsonii - Strathy Strangler (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Agaricales may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Macromycetes (via Agaricales) Fungi sl.

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
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