Marasmiaceae

Marasmiaceae
Marasmius rotula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Marasmiaceae
Roze ex Kühner (1980)
Type genus
Marasmius
Fr. (1835)

The Marasmiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are most frequently agarics (gilled mushrooms), but occasionally cyphelloid (in the genus Cellypha). According to a 2008 estimate, the family contained 54 genera and 1590 species,[1] but molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has led to a more restricted family concept,[2][3] so that the Marasmiaceae included just 13 genera,[4] and some 1205 species.[5] It was reduced further down in 2020, to 10 genera and about 700 species.[6]

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