Hygrophoropsidaceae

Hygrophoropsidaceae
False chanterelle,
Albin Schmalfuß, 1897
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Hygrophoropsidaceae
Kühner (1980)
Type genus
Hygrophoropsis
(J.Schröt.) Maire ex Martin-Sans (1929)
Genera

Hygrophoropsis
Leucogyrophana

The Hygrophoropsidaceae are a family of mushrooms that are gilled in appearance but lie within the Boletales. The family contains 18 species within two genera:[1] Leucogyrophana and Hygrophoropsis, with the best-known member being the "false chanterelle", Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca. Hygrophoropsidaceae was circumscribed by French mycologist Robert Kühner in 1980, with Hygrophoropsis as the type genus.[2] Unlike most members of the Boletales, Hygrophoropsidaceae species are saprophytic wood-rotting fungi that cause brown rot in their hosts.[3] The genera Austropaxillus and Tapinella, once placed in this family,[4] are now classified in the Serpulaceae[5] and Tapinellaceae,[6] respectively.

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