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Subphylum Basidiomycotina - Part 4: Class Holobasidiomycetes Order Agaricales
Subphylum Basidiomycotina - Part 4: Class Holobasidiomycetes Order Agaricales
Families: Tricholomataceae, Russulaceae, Boletaceae, Gomphidiaceae, Gyrodontaceae, Paxillaceae, Strobilomycetaceae (44 pictures)
Tricholomataceae - Tricholoma flavovirens, the type species of the genus Tricholoma X 2/3
Tricholomataceae - Tricholoma nudum = Lepista nuda, the blewit, a good edible ectomycorrhizal species (which crops up every year under the conifers in my garden) X 1/2
Tricholomataceae - Catathelasma imperialis, a large ectomycorrhizal fungus that resembles the pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare) but lacks its edibility and its spicy aroma. X 1/3
Tricholomataceae - Collybia racemosa with its synnematal Sclerostilbum anamorph growing along the stipe X 2/3
Tricholomataceae - Flammulina velutipes, the velvet stipe, a lignicolous (wood-inhabiting) species that fruits in winter X 1/3
Tricholomataceae - Laccaria laccata, a very common and rather variable ectomycorrhizal species X1
Tricholomataceae - Mycena leiana with marginate gills (the edges are orange-red) X 1.5
Tricholomataceae - Nyctalis asterophora attacking Lactarius. The cap of the parasite becomes a mass of conidia, so what looks like a teleomorph is in fact an anamorph X 1/2
Tricholomataceae - Xerula radicata (formerly Collybia radicata and then Oudemansiella radicata) (now placed in a segregate family, the Xerulaceae) X 1/3
Russulaceae
Russulaceae - characteristic basidiospores, with ornamentations that stain blue in Melzer's reagent (which provides the yellow background) X 1000
Russulaceae - Russula emetica, a typical species with a brightly coloured cap X 1/2
Russulaceae - basidiospores of the sequestrate Macowanites, stained in Melzer's reagent and showing its connection to Russula X 1000
Russulaceae - Lactarius vinaceorufescens, with white milk rapidly turning yellow X 1/2
Boletaceae
Boletaceae - Boletus edulis - the cep (France), steinpilz (Germany), porcini (Italy) of Europe. This is a variable species that also occurs all over North America. X 1/5
Boletaceae - another form of Boletus edulis from Ontario. All varieties share the light brown cap and yellow tube mouths X 1/4
Boletaceae - Tylopilus felleus, (unfortunately) the bitter bolete, with pink tube mouths, flourishing in Algonquin Park, Ontario.
Boletaceae - the sequestrate Gastroboletus. In common with many other boletes, its tissues stain blue when exposed to air X 1/2
Boletaceae - sectioned basidioma of Rhizopogon parksii, showing spongy hymenium, absence of stipe, despite close relationship to Suillus X1
Gomphidiaceae
Gomphidiaceae - young basidiomata of Gomphidius subroseus X 1/2
Gyrodontaceae
Gyrodontaceae - Fuscoboletinus paluster X 1/2
Paxillaceae
Strobilomycetaceae
If you are interested in relationships among the Agaricales, may I recommend that you visit the following web page, where phylogenetic schemes based on molecular evidence are posted. http://www.botany.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/agarical.htm