Hygrophoropsidaceae | |
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False chanterelle, Albin Schmalfuß, 1897 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Boletales |
Family: |
Hygrophoropsidaceae Kühner (1980) |
Type genus | |
Hygrophoropsis | |
Genera | |
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.