Fungalpedia – Note 2383, Agaricales

 

Agaricales. Underw.

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

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Classification: Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

 

Notes: The order Agaricales was introduced by Underwood (1899) and mainly includes gilled fungi along with some non-gilled relatives. It is represented by more than 13000 species belonging to 413 genera of 33 families (Kirk et al. 2008). Several mycologists developed different classification schemes for the grouping of these mushrooms (Fries 1821; Fayod 1889; Kühner 1980). These traditional classification systems were based on morphological, anatomical or cytological characters. The most significant work was done by Singer (1986) in which he proposed a classification system by combining both morphological and anatomical features. This grouping was supported by molecular data (Hibbett et al. 1997; Moncalvo et al. 2000, 2002). Recently, molecular phylogenetic studies based on multigene DNA sequences generated six major clades of Agaricales (Matheny et al. 2006).

 

Type family: Agaricaceae Chevall., Fl. gén. env. Paris (Paris) 1: 121 (1826).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Agaricales.

 

References

Fayod V (1889) Prodrome d’une histoire naturelle des Agaricinées. Annls Sci Nat Bot Sér 7 9:181–411

Fries EM (1821) Systema mycologicum 1:1–520

Hibbett DS, Pine EM, Langer E, Langer G, Donoghue MJ (1997) Evolution of gilled mushrooms and puffballs inferred from ribosomal DNA sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:12002–12006

Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008) Ainsworth & Bisby’s dictionary of the fungi, 10th edn. CAB International, Wallingford

Kühner R (1980) Les Hymenomycetes agaricoides. Etude gerenaleet classification. Bull Soc Linn Lyon 49: 1027

Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC, Moncalvo JM, Ge ZW, Yang ZL, Slot JC, Ammirati JF, Baroni TJ, Bougher NL, Hughes KW, Lodge DJ, Kerrigan RW, Seidl MT, Aanen DK, DeNitis M, Daniele GM, Desjardin DE, Kropp BR, Norvell LR, Hibbett DS (2006) Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia 98:982–995

Moncalvo JM, Lutzoni FM, Rehner AS, Johnson J, Vilgalys R (2000) Phylogenetic relationships of agaric fungi based on nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Syst Biol 49:278–305

Moncalvo JM, Vilgalys R, Redhead SA, Johnson JE, Jame TY, Aime MC, Hofstetter V, Verduin SJW, Larsson E, Baroni TJ, Thorn RG, Jacobsson S, Cle´menc¸on H, Miller Jr OK (2002) One hundred seventeen clades of euagarics. Mol Phylogenet Evol 23:357–400

Singer R (1986) The Agaricales in modern taxonomy, 4th edn. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, pp 1–981

Underwood LM (1899) Moulds, mildews and mushrooms: a guide to the systematic study of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their literature. New York, New York: Henry Holt. p. 97.

 

Entry by

Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

 

Published online 30 April 2026

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