Fungalpedia – Note 2393, Cantharellales

 

Cantharellales Gäum.

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

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Classification: Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi The order Cantharellales was proposed by Gäumann (1926). It is monophyletic and closely related to the Sebacinales, at the base of the Agaricomycetes clade (Moncalvo et al. 2006; Hibbett et al. 2014). It includes saprotrophic, ectomycorrhizal, lichenized, and parasitic species. Members of this order display a wide variety of basidiocarp morphology (e.g. effused, stipitate-hydnoid, stipitate-veined, clavate, and coralloid) with a smooth, hydnoid or poroid hymenophore. They are all characterized by developing stichic basidia (Hibbett et al. 2014).

 

References

Gäumann E 1926 – Uber die Spezialisierung des falschen Mehltaus (P. brassicae Gaum.) auf dem Kohl und seinen Verwandten. Landunrtschaftliche Jahrbueher der Schweiz 40:463–468.

Hibbett DS, Bauer R, Binder M, Giachini AJ, Hosaka K, Justo A, Larsson E, Larsson KH, Lawrey JD, Miettinen O, Nagy LG, Nilsson RH, Weiss M, Thorn RG 2014 – Agaricomycetes. In: McLauhghlin DJ, Spatafora JW (eds) Mycota VII, Part A, Systematics and Evolution. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 373–429.

Moncalvo JM, Nilsson RH, Koster B, Dunham SM, Bernauer T, Matheny PB, McLenon T, Margaritescu S, Weiß M, Garnica S, Danell E, Langer G, Langer E, Larsson E, Larsson KH, Vilgalys R 2006 – The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods. Mycologia 98:937–948.

 

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 5 May 2026

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