Fungalpedia – Note 2555, Hydnangiaceae
Hydnangiaceae. Gäum. & C.W. Dodge.
Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank
Classification: Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi
Notes: Hydnangiaceae (Gäumann and Dodge 1928) is a family of Agaricales and currently comprises two genera, Hydnangium and Laccaria (Kirk et al. 2008). The family is characterized by basidiomata stipitate and pileate or gasteroid, epigeous or hypogeous basidiomata. When pileate, the fruitbodies are generally orange-brown or violet in coloration, lamellae thick and waxy; in gasteroid forms, fruit body shape is irregular, with or without columella, the peridium is sometimes evanescent and the hymenium is not gelatinized, and formed in locules. Hyphal system monomitic; hyphae with clamp-connections; pleurocystidia generally absent; basidia 4- or 2-spored; cheilocystidia sometimes present; basidiospores globose to cylindrical, rarely elongate with spines or slightly roughened. The spines are composed of parallel microtubules converging at the tip of the cones (Cannon and Kirk 2007).
Type genus: Hydnangium Wallr., in Dietrich, Fl. Regn. Boruss. 7: 465 (1839).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Hydnangiaceae.
References
Gäumann EA, Dodge CW 1928 – Comparative morphology of fungi, p 1–701.
Kirk PM, Cannon PE, Minter DW, Stalpers JA 2008 – Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th edn. CABI, Wallingford Kiyuna T, An KD, Kigawa R, Sano C, Sugiyama J 2018 – Two new Cladophialophora species, C. tumbae sp. nov. and C. tumulicola sp. nov., and chaetothyrialean fungi from biodeteriorated samples in the Takamatsuzuka and Kitora Tumuli. Mycoscience 59:75–84.
Entry by
Saranyaphat Boonmee, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Published online 6 June 2026