Russulales

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Russulales

Russula emetica (Russulaceae)

Kingdom:	Fungi
Subkingdom:	Dikarya
Phylum:	Basidiomycota
Subphylum:	Agaricomycotina
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Russulales

Families

Albatrellaceae
Amylostereaceae
Auriscalpiaceae
Bondarzewiaceae
Echinodontiaceae
Gloeocystidiellaceae
Hericiaceae
Hybogasteraceae
Lachnocladiaceae
Peniophoraceae
Russulaceae
Stephanosporaceae
Stereaceae

The Russulales is an order of the Agaricomycetes, (which include the agaric genera Russula and Lactarius and their polyporoid and corticioid relatives).

Russuloid agarics represent an independent evolutionary line of agarics, not directly related to the Agaricales.

This group also includes a number of russuloid hypogeous fungi, polypores such as Bondarzewia, some tooth fungi, and club fungi e.g. Artomyces.^[1] Basidiospores in this group are typically ornamented with amyloid warts or reticulation but a few exceptions are known, e.g. Heterobasidion annosum. The genus Clavicorona was often treated in the Russulales, but its type species, C. taxophila is in the Agaricales. The remaining species are retained in the Russulales in the genus Artomyces.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Miller, S.L. et al. (2006). "Perspectives in the new Russulales". Mycologia 98: 960-970.
^ Lickey, E.B. et al. (2003). "Phylogenetic and taxonomic studies in Artomyces and Clavicorona (Homobasidiomycetes: Auriscalpiaceae)". Sydowia 55: 181-254.