Fungalpedia – Note 3266, Clitocybaceae
Clitocybaceae Vizzini, Consiglio & M. Marchetti, Index Fungorum 462: 1 (2020).
Citation when using this data: He MQ et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.
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Classification: Tricholomatineae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.
Matheny et al. (2006), Binder et al. (2010), Vizzini et al. (2011), Vizzini and Ercole (2012), Raj et al. (2019), and Olariaga et al. (2020) recovered evidence for a monophyletic clade consisting of Clitocybe, Collybia s. s., and Lepista (Tribe Clitocybeae Fayod). Alvarado et al. (2015, 2018a, b), Sánchez-García et al. (2016), Sesli et al. (2016), Sánchez-García and Matheny (2017) and He et al. (2023a) found also that the genus Singerocybe is nested inside it. The informal name “Clitocybaceae” was used for this clade in some works (Cooper 2016a; Kalichman et al. 2020; Kibby 2021), but it was only recently validly published by Vizzini et al. (2020c).
Type genus: Clitocybe (Fr.) Staude 1857.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Clitocybaceae.
References
Alvarado P, Moreau PA, Dima B, Vizzini A et al. 2018a – Pseudoclitocybaceae fam. nov. (Agaricales, Tricholomatineae), a new arrangement at family, genus and species level. Fungal Diversity 90:109–133.
Alvarado P, Moreau PA, Sesli E, Khodja LY et al. 2018b – Phylogenetic studies on Bonomyces (Tricholomatineae, Agaricales) and two new combinations from Clitocybe. Cryptogamie Mycologie 39(2):149–168.
Alvarado P, Moreno G, Vizzini A, Consiglio G et al. 2015 – Atractosporocybe, Leucocybe and Rhizocybe: three new clitocyboid genera in the Tricholomatoid clade (Agaricales) with notes on Clitocybe and Lepista. Mycologia 107(1):123–136.
Binder M, Larsson KH, Matheny PB, Hibbett DS 2010 – Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: early diverging clades of Agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid forms. Mycologia 102:865–880.
Cooper J 2016a – Mycological Notes 32: Notes on the Porotheleaceae of New Zealand.
He Z-M, Chen Z-H, Bau T, Wang G-S, Yang Z-L 2023a – Systematic arrangement within the family Clitocybaceae (Tricholomatineae, Agaricales): phylogenetic and phylogenomic evidence, morphological data and muscarine-producing innovation. Fungal Diversity 27:1–47.
Kalichman J, Kirk PM, Matheny PB 2020 – A compendium of generic names of Agarics and Agaricales. Taxon 69:425–447.
Kibby G 2021 – Fungal Portraits: No. 87: Three white Clitocybe species: C. phyllophila, C. rivulosa & C. leucodiatreta. Field Mycology 22(3):75–77.
Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC et al. 2006 – Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia 98:982–995.
Olariaga I, Huhtinen S, Læssøe T, Petersen JH, Hansen K 2020 – Phylogenetic origins and family classification of typhuloid fungi, with emphasis on Ceratellopsis, Macrotyphula and Typhula (Basidiomycota). Studies in mycology 96:155-184.
Raj KA, Latha KD, Leelavathy KM, Manimohan P 2019 – Anupama: a new genus of Biannulariaceae (Agaricales) from tropical India. Mycological Progress 18:659–669.
Sánchez-García M, Henkel TW, Aime MC, Smith ME, Matheny PB 2016 – Guyanagarika, a new ectomycorrhizal genus of Agaricales from the Neotropics. Fungal Biology 120(12):1540–1553.
Sánchez-García M, Matheny PB 2017 – Is the switch to an ectomycorrhizal state an evolutionary key innovation in mushroom‐forming fungi? A case study in the Tricholomatineae (Agaricales). Evolution 71(1):51–65.
Sesli E, Vizzini A, Ercole E, Contu M 2016 – Clitolyophyllum akcaabatense gen. nov., sp. nov.(Agaricales, Tricholomatineae); a new fan-shaped clitocyboid agaric from Turkey. Botany 94(2):73–80.
Vizzini A, Consiglio G, Marchetti M 2020c – Index Fungorum 462:1.
Vizzini A, Contu M, Ercole E 2011 – Musumecia gen. nov. in the Tricholomatoid clade (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) related to Pseudoclitocybe. Nordic Journal of Botany 29(6):734–740.
Vizzini A, Ercole E 2012 – Paralepistopsis gen. nov. and Paralepista (Basidiomycota, Agaricales). Mycotaxon 120(1):253–267.
Entry by
Mao-Qiang He, State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China.
Published online 25 September 2026.
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