Agaricaceae
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Agaricaceae Temporal range: Burdigalian–recent [1] |
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| Agaricus campestris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Agaricaceae Chevall. (1826) |
| Type genus | |
| Agaricus L. (1756) |
|
| Genera | |
|
85; See text |
|
The Agaricaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi and includes the genus Agaricus, as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae. The genus contains 85 genera and 1340 species.[2]
[edit] Genera
Genera Leucoagaricus and Leucocoprinus are known to be cultivated by fungus-growing ants in ant-fungus mutualism.[3] The extinct genus Coprinites is one of four known agaricalean genera in the fossil record.[4]
The family currently includes the following genera:
- Agaricus
- Allopsalliota
- Anellaria
- Barcheria
- Bovista
- Calvatia
- Chamaemyces
- Chlorophyllum
- †Coprinites
- Coprinus
- Cystoagaricus
- Cystoderma
- Cystodermella
- Cystolepiota
- Endoptychum
- Gyrophragmium
- Hymenagaricus
- Lepiota
- Leucoagaricus
- Leucocoprinus
- Lycoperdon
- Macrolepiota
- Melanophyllum
- Micropsalliota
- Montagnea
- Notholepiota
- Podaxis
- Ripartitella
- Smithiomyces
- Tulostoma
- Verrucospora
- Volvolepiota
[edit] See also
[edit] References
 |
Wikispecies has information related to: Agaricaceae |
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Agaricaceae |
- ^ Poinar, G.; Singer, R. (1990). "Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic". Science 248 (4959): 1099–1101. doi:10.1126/science.248.4959.1099. PMID 17733372.
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th ed. Wallingford: CABI. p. 11. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- ^ B. Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson (2009). The superorganism: the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies. New York NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
- ^ hibbet, D.S.; et al (2003). "Another Fossil Agaric from Dominican Amber". Mycologia 95 (4): 685–687. doi:10.2307/3761943. JSTOR 3761943. PMID 21148976.
Media related to Agaricaceae at Wikimedia Commons
.png){kind=small} |
This Agaricales-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
