The Tricholomataceae are a large

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s within the

Agaricales The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills) or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13,000 described species, alo ...

. Originally a classic "

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", the family included any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored

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in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. the

Amanitaceae The Amanitaceae is a family of mushroom-forming fungi. ''Amanita'' Pers. is one of the most specious and best-known fungal genera. The family, also commonly called the amanita family, is in order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms. The family c ...

Lepiotaceae The Agaricaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi and include the genus ''Agaricus'', as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae. Taxonomy The family Agaricaceae was publishe ...

Hygrophoraceae The Hygrophoraceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Originally conceived as containing white-spored, thick-gilled agarics (gilled mushrooms), including '' Hygrophorus'' and ''Hygrocybe'' species (the waxcaps or waxy caps), DNA evi ...

Pluteaceae The Pluteaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have free gill attachment and pink spores. Members of Pluteaceae can be mistaken for members of Entolomataceae, but can be distinguished by the angled spores and attached gill ...

, or

Entolomataceae The Entolomataceae, also known as Rhodophyllaceae, are a large family of pink-spored terrestrial gilled mushrooms which includes the genera ''Entoloma'', '' Rhodocybe'', and ''Clitopilus''. The family collectively contains over 1500 species, th ...

. The name derives from the

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''trichos'' (τριχος) meaning hair and ''loma'' (λωμα) meaning fringe or border, although not all members display this feature. The name "Tricholomataceae" is seen as having validity in describing ''

Tricholoma ''Tricholoma'' is a genus of fungus that contains many fairly fleshy white-spored gilled mushrooms which are found worldwide generally growing in woodlands. These are ectomycorrhizal fungi, existing in a symbiotic relationship with various s ...

'' and its close relatives, and whatever other genera can at some future point be described as part of a monophyletic family including ''Tricholoma''. To that end, the

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has voted on two occasions (1988 and 2006) to conserve the name "Tricholomataceae" against competing names. This decision does not invalidate the use of segregate families from the Tricholomataceae, but simply validates the continued use of Tricholomataceae.

Taxonomy

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analysis has greatly aided the demarcation of clear

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groups among the Tricholomataceae. So far, most of these groups have been defined

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rather than being defined as formal Linnean

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, though there have been several cases in which older proposed segregates from the Tricholomataceae have been validated by evidence coming from

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. As of 2006, validly published families segregated from the Tricholomataceae include the

Hydnangiaceae The Hydnangiaceae are a family of fungi in the mushroom order Agaricales. Widespread in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world, the family contains about 30 species in four genera. Species in the Hydnangiaceae form ectomycorrhizal re ...

, Lyophyllaceae,

Marasmiaceae The Marasmiaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi which have white spores. They mostly have tough stems and the capability of shrivelling up during a dry period and later recovering. The widely consumed edible fungus ''Lentinula edodes'', th ...

, Mycenaceae, Omphalotaceae, Physalacriaceae, and

Pleurotaceae The Pleurotaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have white spores. The family contains four genera ('' Nematoctonus'' has been synonymized with '' Hohenbuehelia'', but not all of its species have been moved to valid genera) ...

. Arnolds (1986) and Bas (1990) also place the genera of the Hygrophoraceae within this family, but this classification is not accepted by the majority of fungal

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. In 2014 a study recovers seven

genera within the Tricholomataceae; Leucopaxillus,

, Pseudotricholoma stat. nov, Porpoloma s.str,

Dennisiomyces ''Dennisiomyces'' is a genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae. Described by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1955, the genus contains five species found in South America. The genus name of ''Dennisiomyces'' is in honour of Richard William Georg ...

, Corneriella gen.nov. and Albomagister gen. nov. The aim of the study was to delimit the highly

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Tricholomataceae, and identyfiy

groups within the Tricholomatoid clade, which includes the families Tricholimoaceae,

, and

Lyophyllaceae The Lyophyllaceae is a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. A 2008 estimate indicated eight genera and 157 species; , the Catalog of Life lists 13 genera in the family. Lyophyllaceae was circumscribed by mycologist Walter Jülich in 1981. S ...

. According to this study there have been several different ways of distributing Porpoloma, which is highly

. This study suggests that the genus Porpoloma is distributed in four groups within the Trichlomatatic clade; Porpoloma s.str, Corneriella gen.nov. and Pseudotricholoma stat. nov. and Pogonoloma. Some species of

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in the genus ''

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'' cultivate species of Tricholomataceae. The extinct genus ''

Archaeomarasmius ''Archaeomarasmius'' is an extinct genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Tricholomataceae, containing the single species ''Archaeomarasmius leggetti''. It is known from two fruit bodies recovered from amber, one consisting of a complet ...

'', described from

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-age

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amber, is one of four known genera of Agaricales in the fossil record.

References

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Brief notes on the status of Family Hygrophoraceae Lotsy.
Australasian Mycologist 21(3):114–116. {{Taxonbar, from=Q1147371 Tricholomataceae,

Tricholomataceae The Tricholomataceae are a large family of mushrooms within the Agaricales. Originally a classic " wastebasket taxon", the family included any white-, yellow-, or pink-spored genera in the Agaricales not already classified as belonging to e.g. th ...

Taxonomy

See also

References