Russulales

Taxobox
name = Russulales


image_width = 180px
image_caption = "Russula emetica" (Russulaceae)
regnum = Fungi
subregnum = Dikarya
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Agaricomycotina
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Russulales
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
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". [cite journal | author=Miller, S.L. et al.|year=2006| title=Perspectives in the new Russulales| journal=Mycologia| volume=98| pages=960–970| doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.6.960] 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". [cite journal | author=Lickey, E.B. et al.|year=2003| title=Phylogenetic and taxonomic studies in Artomyces and Clavicorona (Homobasidiomycetes: Auriscalpiaceae)| journal=Sydowia| volume=55| pages=181–254]

References

External links

* [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/russulales-news/in_characteristics.asp Russulales News]
* [http://w3.uwyo.edu/~fungi/Russulales_site.html The Russulales Website]