| Bolbitiaceae | |
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| Bolbitius vitellinus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Bolbitiaceae Singer (1948) |
| Type genus | |
| Bolbitius Fr. (1838) |
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| Genera | |
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Agrogaster |
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The Bolbitiaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi. There are 17 genera and 171 species in the family.[1]
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This family is of mushrooms that have a hymenium on gills, brown spores and a hymenoderm pileipellis.
Bolbitius are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with gelatinous cap surface. These lack a veil, are saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass.
Conocybe are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass. These have cheilocystidia which are capitate.
Pholiotina are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass, and have a veil. Some have a membranous veil, mid-stipe, others the veil breaks up and can be found on the cap margin. These are separated from Conocybe in that the cheilocystidia are non-capitate.