Fungalpedia – Note 3258, Cuphophylloideae

 

Cuphophylloideae Z.M. He & Zhu L. Yang, MycoKeys 79: 138 (2021).

Citation when using this data: He MQ et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Hygrophoraceae, Hygrophorineae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Phylogenetically, Ampulloclitocybe, Cantharocybe and Cuphophyllus were considered as basal in Hygrophoraceae, where they constituted the so-called cuphophylloid grade (Lodge et al. 2014). However, exact phylogenetic position of these three genera have remained unresolved until He and Yang (2021) that based on multigenic phylogenetic inference datasets, established a new subfamily Cuphophylloideae, which includes Ampulloclitocybe, Cantharocybe, Cuphophyllus, and Spodocybe.

Type genus: Cuphophyllus (Donk) Bon 1985.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Cuphophylloideae.

 

References

Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC et al. 2014 – Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal Diversity 64:1–99.

He Z-M, Yang Z-L 2021 – A new clitocyboid genus Spodocybe and a new subfamily Cuphophylloideae in the family Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). MycoKeys 79:129.

 

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 18 September 2026.

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