Minnesota Seasons - Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)

Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy

Overview

Agaricales is an order of club fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota). It originally contained all gilled mushrooms and was known by the common name “agarics”. Microscopic studies and DNA research has shown that not all gilled mushrooms are Agaricales and not all Agaricales are gilled mushrooms. The term agarics is still used, but it now encompasses all gilled mushrooms, and it has no taxonomic equivalent.

There are more than 25,000 described species in more than 400 genera in 46 families in the order Agaricales.

Common Gilled Mushroom or Ally (Order Agaricales)

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Agaricales occur everywhere, on all continents including Antarctica; in every state in the United States and in every province in Canada, and in every county in Minnesota. Every county, that is, except for one – Traverse County. There are no records of an Agaricale in Traverse County from GBIF, iNaturalist, Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas, Mushroom Observer, MycoPortal, or MinnesotaSeasons.com.

Almost all Agaricales are terrestrial (at least one species is aquatic), and they are found in almost every habitat, including grasslands, woodlands, and deserts. Some species are saprobic, getting their nutrients from dead organic matter. Some species are ectomycorrhizal, getting nutrients from the rootlets of plants while helping the plant absorb water and minerals. And some species are parasitic on plants or other fungi.

Description

Fruiting bodies (basidiocarps) of Agaricales typically are fleshy, and they have a cap (pileus), a stalk (stipe), and gills (lamellae). However, none of these characteristics are unique to Agaricales, and some Agaricales lack a well defined cap, stalk, or gills. Based on recent molecular DNA research, puffballs, false truffels, and some of the coral and club fungi, have been moved to the order Agaricales.


Distribution
		Sources 4, 7, 24, 26, 29, 30, 77.
7/20/2024


Taxonomy
Kingdom	Fungi (fungi)
Subkingdom	Dikarya
Phylum	Basidiomycota (club fungi)
Subphylum	Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms)
Class	Agaricomycetes (mushrooms, bracket fungi, puffballs, and allies)
Subclass	Agaricomycetidae

Subordinate Taxa
Suborder Agaricineae Family Agaricaceae (Field Mushrooms and Allies) Family Battarreaceae Family Bolbitiaceae Family Chromocyphellaceae Family Coprinaceae Family Cortinariaceae Family Crassisporiaceae Family Crepidotaceae Family Galeropsidaceae Family Hydnangiaceae Family Hymenogastraceae Family Inocybaceae (Fibercaps and Allies) Family Lycoperdaceae (Puffballs) Family Mythicomycetaceae Family Nidulariaceae (Bird's Nest Fungi) Family Psathyrellaceae (Brittlestems and Allies) Family Squamanitaceae Family Strophariaceae Family Tubariaceae Family Verrucosporaceae Suborder Clavariineae Family Clavariaceae (Antler and Spindle Fungi) Suborder Hygrophorineae Family Cantharellulaceae Family Cuphophyllaceae Family Hygrocybaceae Family Hygrophoraceae (Waxcaps and Allies) Family Lichenomphaliaceae Suborder Marasmiineae Family Cyphellaceae Family Cystostereaceae Family Marasmiaceae (Pinwheels) Family Mycenaceae Family Omphalotaceae Family Physalacriaceae Family Porotheleaceae Family Xeromphalinaceae Suborder Phyllotopsidineae Family Phyllotopsidaceae Family Pterulaceae Family Radulomycetaceae Suborder Pleurotineae Family Pleurotaceae Family Stephanosporaceae Suborder Pluteineae Family Amanitaceae (Amanita Mushrooms and Allies) Family Limnoperdaceae Family Melanoleucaceae Family Pluteaceae Family Volvariellaceae Suborder Sarcomyxineae Family Sarcomyxaceae Suborder Schizophyllineae Family Niaceae Family Schizophyllaceae Suborder Tricholomatineae Family Asproinocybaceae Family Biannulariaceae Family Callistosporiaceae Family Entolomataceae Family Fayodiaceae Family Lyophyllaceae Family Macrocystidiaceae Family Omphalinaceae Family Pseudoclitocybaceae Family Tricholomataceae Suborder Typhulineae Family Typhulaceae no suborder (may be transferred or otherwise no longer valid, but still recognized by some sources) Family Broomeiaceae Family Fistulinaceae Family Hemigasteraceae Family Phelloriniaceae

Synonyms
Amanitales Cortinariales Entolomatales Fistulinales Schizophyllales

Common Names
Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies

Glossary

Ectomycorrhizal

A symbiotic, neutral, or beneficial relationship between a fungus and the tiny rootlets of a plant, usually a tree, where the hyphae surround but do not penetrate the rootlets.

Parasitic

Obtaining nutrients from another living organism.

Saprobic

A term often used for saprotrophic fungi. Referring to fungi that obtain their nutrients from decayed organic matter.


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8/23/2024

Location: Bayport, MN Washington County

Found in the alley


Alfredo Colon 8/24/2022	Location: Albany, NY


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