Agaricaceae
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The Agaricaceae are a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of basidiomycete fungi and includes the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 Agaricus, as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae
Lycoperdaceae
Lycoperdaceae is a family of approximately 150 fungi now known to lie in the Agaricales. Historically they were placed in their own order Lycoperdales. Members of the Lycoperdaceae family are known as the true puffballs. Unlike other types of fungi that hold spores in gills or teeth, puffballs...

. The genus contains 85 genera and 1340 species.

Genera

Genera Leucoagaricus
Leucoagaricus
Leucoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus contains approximately 90 species.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

and Leucocoprinus
Leucocoprinus
Leucocoprinus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its best known member is the yellow pot-plant mushroom , found worldwide. The type species is Leucocoprinus cepistipes...

are known to be cultivated by fungus-growing ants in ant-fungus mutualism
Ant-fungus mutualism
Ant-fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen in certain ant and fungal species, where ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. In some species, the ants and fungi are dependent on each other for survival. The leafcutter ant is a well known example of this symbiosis...

. The extinct genus Coprinites
Coprinites
Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae. At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana....

is one of four known agaricalean genera in the fossil record.

The family currently includes the following genera:
  • Agaricus
    Agaricus
    Agaricus is a large and important genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide...

  • Allopsalliota
    Allopsalliota
    Allopsalliota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. A monotypic genus, it consists of the single species Allopsalliota geesterani.-External links:*...

  • Anellaria
  • Barcheria
    Barcheria
    Barcheria is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Barcheria willisiana.-External links:*...

  • Bovista
    Bovista
    Bovista is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae, commonly known as the true puffballs. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the species of Bovista are...

  • Calvatia
    Calvatia
    Calvatia is a genus of puffball mushrooms which includes the spectacular giant puffball C. gigantea. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the puffballs,...

  • Chamaemyces
    Chamaemyces
    Chamaemyces is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle in 1906....

  • Chlorophyllum
    Chlorophyllum
    Chlorophyllum is a genus of large agarics similar in appearance to the true parasol mushroom. Chlorophyllum was originally coined in 1898, a time when spore color was the deciding factor for differentiating genera...

  • Extinction
    In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...

    Coprinites
    Coprinites
    Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae. At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana....

  • Coprinus
    Coprinus
    Coprinus is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of Coprinus comatus and several of its close relatives. Until 2001, Coprinus was a large genus consisting of all agaric species in which the lamellae autodigested to release their spores...

  • Cystoagaricus
    Cystoagaricus
    Cystoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the Psathyrellaceae family. The genus contains four species found in subtropical America....

  • Cystoderma
    Cystoderma
    Cystoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.The name probably comes from the Greek kýstis meaning pouch and derma meaning skin.-List of species:Below is an incomplete list of Cystoderma species....

  • Cystodermella
    Cystodermella
    Cystodermella is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.The genus comprises approximately 12 species, noted for producing agaric fruiting bodies, bearing a cap, white gills and stem with a fine, ephemeral ring...

  • Cystolepiota
    Cystolepiota
    Cystolepiota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-Species:A list of Cystolepiota species is presented below.* C. adulterina* C. bucknallii* C. constricta* C. fumosifolia* C. hetieri* C. luteohemisphaerica...

  • Endoptychum
    Endoptychum
    Endoptychum is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Like the majority of secotioid taxa, the individual species of Endoptychum are thought to be recent mutations from agaricoid species, hence, Endoptychum is likely not a valid monophyletic genus.So far, molecular phylogeny and...

  • Gyrophragmium
    Gyrophragmium
    Gyrophragmium is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by botanist Camille Montagne in 1843....

  • Hymenagaricus
    Hymenagaricus
    Hymenagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

  • Lepiota
    Lepiota
    Lepiota is a genus of gilled mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. All Lepiota species are ground-dwelling saprotrophs with a preference for rich, calcareous soils. Basidiocarps are agaricoid with whitish spores, typically with scaly caps and a ring on the stem. Around 400 species of Lepiota are...

  • Leucoagaricus
    Leucoagaricus
    Leucoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus contains approximately 90 species.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

  • Leucocoprinus
    Leucocoprinus
    Leucocoprinus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its best known member is the yellow pot-plant mushroom , found worldwide. The type species is Leucocoprinus cepistipes...

  • Lycoperdon
    Lycoperdon
    Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 50 species. In general, it contains the smaller species such as the pear shaped puffball and the gem studded puffball. Most of the time they grow from dead wood and if they grow through the...

  • Macrolepiota
    Macrolepiota
    Macrolepiota is a genus of white spored, gilled mushrooms of the family Agaricaceae. The best known member is the parasol mushroom . The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 30 species....

  • Melanophyllum
    Melanophyllum
    Melanophyllum is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The widespread genus contains three species....

  • Micropsalliota
    Micropsalliota
    Micropsalliota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae....

  • Montagnea
    Montagnea
    Montagnea is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution in subtropical dry areas, and contains five species....

  • Notholepiota
    Notholepiota
    Notholepiota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

  • Podaxis
    Podaxis
    Podaxis is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Species, which have the appearance of a "stalked-puffball", have a worldwide distribution, and tend to be found growing solitary or scattered on sandy soils, especially in arid regions...

  • Ripartitella
    Ripartitella
    Ripartitella is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

  • Smithiomyces
    Smithiomyces
    Smithiomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It was circumscribed by Rolf Singer in 1944. The type species, S. mexicanus, was formerly placed in Amanita, as well as the now obsolete Leucomyces and Venenarius. The genus was named to honor American mycologist Alexander H. Smith....

  • Tulostoma
    Tulostoma
    Tulostoma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

  • Verrucospora
    Verrucospora
    Verrucospora is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae....

  • Volvolepiota
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