Hygrophoraceae

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Hygrophoraceae
Hygrophorus eburneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Lotsy (1907)[1]
Type genus
Hygrophorus
Fr. (1836)
Genera

Acantholichen
Aeruginospora
Ampulloclitocybe
Aphroditeola
Arrhenia
Cantharellula
Cantharocybe
Chromosera
Chrysomphalina
Cora
Corella[2]
Cuphophyllus
Cyphellostereum
Dictyonema
Eonema
Gliophorus
Gloioxanthomyces
Haasiella
Hygroaster
Hygrocybe
Hygrophorus
Humidicutis
Lichenomphalia
Neohygrocybe
Porpolomopsis
Pseudoarmillariella
Semiomphalina

The Hygrophoraceae are a

genera and over 1000 species.[3]
None is of any great economic importance, though fruit bodies of some Hygrocybe and Hygrophorus species are considered edible and may be collected for sale in local markets.

Taxonomy

History

The family Hygrophoraceae was first proposed by Dutch botanist

agarics with thick, waxy lamellae (gills) and white spores. Lotsy's concept of the family included not only the waxcap-related genera Hygrophorus, Hygrocybe, Camarophyllus (= Hygrophorus), and Godfrinia (= Hygrocybe), but also Gomphidius (despite its blackish spores) and Nyctalis (= Asterophora).[1] Not all subsequent authors accepted the Hygrophoraceae; Carleton Rea (1922), for example, continued to place these genera within a widely defined Agaricaceae.[4]

In his major and influential revision of the Agaricales, however,

Current status

Recent

synapomorphy
).

Habitat, nutrition, and distribution

The majority of species in the Hygrophoraceae are ground-dwelling, though a few (such as

Eonema pyriforme). Most are found in woodland, though (in Europe at least) Hygrocybe species are typical of waxcap grasslands.[12]

Species are nutritionally diverse.

saprotrophic
.

Members of the Hygrophoraceae are distributed worldwide, from the tropics to the subpolar regions. Over 400 species have been described to date.

Economic usage

Fruit bodies of some

St'at'imc and Nlaka'pamux people of Canada.[17]
None is cultivated commercially.

References

  1. ^ a b Lotsy JP. (1907). Vorträge über botanische stammesgeschichte, gehalten an der Reichsuniversität zu Leiden. Ein lehrbuch der pflanzensystematick (in German). Vol. 1. Jena: Gustav Fischer. p. 706.
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  3. ^ "Hygrophoraceae | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  4. ^ Rea C. (1922). British Basidiomycetaceae: A Handbook of the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 799.
  5. ^ Singer R. (1951) [1949]. "The Agaricales (Mushrooms) in Modern Taxonomy". Lilloa. 22: 5–832.
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  9. ^ Bon M. (1990). Flore mycologique d'Europe 1: Les Hygrophores (in French). Amiens Cedex: CRDP de Picardie. p. 99.
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    (PDF) on 2016-03-03.
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  15. ^ Dugan (2011), pp. 76–78.
  16. ^ Dugan (2011), p. 44.
  17. ^ Dugan (2011), p. 88.

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