Fungalpedia – Note 2395, Gomphales

 

Gomphales Jülich

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

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Classification: Phallomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

The order Gomphales was proposed by Jülich in 1981. It is monophyletic and closely related to Geastrales, Hysterangiales and Phallales (Villegas et al. 1999; Hosaka et al. 2006; Giachini et al. 2010) and includes saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal representatives with wide morphological basidiocarp variation (e.g. resupinate, clavate, coralloid, cantharelloid, hydnoid, and gasteroid). However, all species in the Gomphales have a positive reaction to ferric salts in the hymeniun, chiastic basidia and most taxa have cyanophilic ornamented spores (Donk 1964; Petersen 1971; Pine et al. 1999; Villegas et al. 2005).

 

References

Donk MA 1964 – A conspectus of the families of Aphyllophorales. Persoonia 3:199–324.

Giachini AJ, Hosaka K, Nohura E, Spatafora J, Trappe JM 2010 – Phylogenetic relationships of the Gomphales based on nuc-25S-rDNA, mit-12S-rDNA, and mit-atp6-DNA combined sequences. Fungal Biol 114:224–234.

Hosaka K, Bates ST, Beever RE, Castellano MA, Colgan W, Dominguez LS, Nouhra ER, Geml J, Giachini AJ, Kenney SR, Simpson NB, Spatafora JW, Trappe JM 2006 – Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with an establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders. Mycologia 98:949–959.

Petersen RH 1971 – Interfamilial relationships in the clavarioid and cantharelloid fungi. University of Tennesse. Knoxville, Tennessee.

Pine EM, Hibbett DS, Donoghue MJ 1999 – Phylogenetic relationships of cantharelloid and clavarioid homobasidiomycetes based on mitochondrial and nuclear rDNA sequences. Mycologia 91:944–963.

Villegas M, De Luna E, Cifuentes J, Estrada-Torres A 1999 – Phylogenetic studies in Gomphaceae sensu lato (Basidiomycetes). Mycotaxon 70:127–147.

Villegas M, Cifuentes J, Torres AE 2005 – Sporal characters in Gomphales and their significance for phylogenetics. Fungal Divers 18:157–175.

 

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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