Agaricomycetes: Class Agaricomycetes

There are approximately 16,000 Agaricomycetes. These fungi produce mushrooms and are thus, the most recognizable and conspicious of all fungi. Most people that want to identify a mushrooms will first come to this class. From here, there are several unique orders of fungi, all of which we'll profile here. The following orders divide up the Agaricomycetes. 

Subclass Agaricomycetidae

• Agaricales: Gilled Mushrooms
• Atheliales: "Southern Blight" disease, "crater rot"
• Boletales: Boletes

Subclass Phallomycetidae

• Geastrales: Earthstars
• Gomphales: Uterus-shaped club
• Hysterangiales: 
• Phallales: Truffel-like fungi

Unsubclassed orders

• Auriculariales: Jelly fungi
• Cantharellales: Chanterelles
• Corticiales: Red thread disease, 
• Gloeophyllales: Rusty gilled polypore
• Hymenochaetales: Coral fungus, 
• Polyporales: Black-staining polypore
• Russulales: Russulas, Lactarius
• Sebacinales: Orchid mycorrhizal fungi
• Thelephorales: scaley hedgehod mushroom, blue-green hydnellum
• Trechisporales: