Agaricales

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Agaricales - typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota order Agaricales fungus order - the order of fungi Clavariaceae, family Clavariaceae - fleshy fungi: coral fungi family Hydnaceae, Hydnaceae - tooth fungi Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina - comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside Agaricaceae, family Agaricaceae - large family including many familiar mushrooms Coprinaceae, family Coprinaceae - used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus family Russulaceae, Russulaceae - used in some classification systems for the genus Russula family Strophariaceae, Strophariaceae - sometimes included in family Agaricaceae Entolomataceae, family Entolomataceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales family Lepiotaceae, Lepiotaceae - a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk family Thelephoraceae, Thelephoraceae - fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores family Tricholomataceae, Tricholomataceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales family Volvariaceae, Volvariaceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales family Pluteaceae, Pluteaceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales Boletaceae, family Boletaceae - family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other family Hygrophoraceae, Hygrophoraceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance Cortinariaceae, family Cortinariaceae - a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales