Fungalpedia – Note 2386, Hygrophoraceae

 

Hygrophoraceae. Lotsy.

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

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Classification: Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

 

Notes: Hygrophoraceae was erected by Lotsy in 1907. Hygrophorus, the generic type for the family, was published by Fries in 1836. Most species in Hygrophoraceae are characterized by thick basidiomes with distant, waxy lamellae, spores mostly smooth, hyaline and inamyloid, and basidia five or more times the length of their spores (Singer 1986). However, these characters are not as reliable as they once were (Lodge et al. 2014). Matheny et al. (2006) were the first to show strong support for a monophyletic Hygrophoraceae. Currently, Hygrophoraceae comprises over 600 species in 26 genera and is thus one of the larger families in the Agaricales (Lodge et al. 2014).

 

Type genus: Hygrophorus Fr., Fl. Scan.: 339 (1836) [1835].

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Hygrophoraceae.

 

References

Lodge DJ, Padamsee M, Matheny PB, Aime MC, Cantrell SA, Boertmann D, Kovalenko A, Vizzini A, Dentinger BTM, Kirk PM, Ainsworth AM, Moncalvo JM, Vilgalys R, Larsson E, Lücking R, Griffith GW, Smith ME, Norvell LL, Desjardin DE, Redhead SA, Ovrebo CL, Lickey EB, Ercole E, Hughes KW, Courtecuisse R, Young A, Binder M, Minnis AM, Lindner DL, Ortiz-Santana B, Haight J, Læssøe T, Baroni TJ, Geml J, Hattori T (2014) Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal Divers 64:1–99

Lotsy JP (1907) Vorträgeüber botanische Stammesgeschichte. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp 1–708

Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC, Moncalvo JM, Ge ZW, Yang ZL, Slot JC, Ammirati JF, Baroni TJ, Bougher NL, Hughes KW, Lodge DJ, Kerrigan RW, Seidl MT, Aanen DK, DeNitis M, Daniele GM, Desjardin DE, Kropp BR, Norvell LR, Hibbett DS (2006) Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia 98:982–995

Singer R (1986) The Agaricales in modern taxonomy, 4th edn. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, pp 1–981

 

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 30 April 2026

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