The Agaricostilbales are an

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of fungi in the class Agaricostilbomycetes. The order consists of six families and 15

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

. Agaricostilbales was originally described in 1989 by Franz Oberwinkler and

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with just two families, the

Agaricostilbaceae The Agaricostilbaceae are a family of fungi in the order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization whe ...

and the Chionosphaeraceae.

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research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has subsequently added additional families. Many species are known only from their yeast states. Where known, basidiocarps (fruitbodies) are small and stilboid (pin-like). Species in the family

Crittendeniaceae ''Crittendenia'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi in the monogeneric family Crittendeniaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 2021 to contain two species, '' C. lichenicola'', and the type, '' C. coppinsii''. An a ...

are lichenicolous.

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Basidiomycota orders Taxa named by Franz Oberwinkler Taxa described in 1989 {{Basidiomycetes-stub