| Hydnangiaceae | |
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| Hydnangium carneum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Hydnangiaceae Gäum. & C.W.Dodge (1928) |
| Type genus | |
| Hydnangium Wallr. (1839) |
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| Genera | |
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Hydnangium |
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The Hydnangiaceae are a family of fungi in the order of mushrooms known as the Agaricales. Widespread in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world, the family contains approximately 30 species amongst 4 genera.[1] Species in the Hydnangiaceae form ectomycorrhizal relationships with various species of trees in both coniferous and deciduous forests.[2]
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Taxa may have fruiting bodies with stems and caps (pileate-stipiate), or gasteroid (with internal spore production, like puffballs). When pileate the cap is glabrous to scaly, sometimes striate, typically orange-brown or violet in color; the gills are widely spaced, thick and waxy. In gasteroid forms, fruit body shape is irregular, with thin walls. Also, the peridium (the outer layer of the spore-bearing organ) is sometimes short-lasting (evanescent). Columella (the central, sterile part of the sporangium) may be absent or present, the hymenium are not gelatinized, and are formed in locules. Basidia are club-shaped (clavate), with two or four sterigmata, sometimes with accompanying cheilocystidia (cystidia on the edges of gills). Taxa have a widespread distribution in both temperate and tropical zones.[3]
Hydnangium have hypogeal fruiting bodies like truffles, with no stem, nor a columella.
Laccaria have a 'typical' mushroom shape (pileate-stipiate)
Maccagnia
Podohydnangium have subepigeal fruiting bodies, with partially exposed gleba at the base, and have stem columella
Beaton G, Pegler DN, Young TWK. 1984. Gasteroid Basidiomycota of Victoria State, Australia. I. Hydnangiaceae. Kew Bulletin 39(3):499-508.