Agaricales - Tricholomataceae, Russulaceae, Boletaceae, Gomphidiaceae, Gyrodontaceae, Paxillaceae, Strobilomycetaceae - The Fifth Kingdom

Families: Tricholomataceae, Russulaceae, Boletaceae,
Gomphidiaceae, Gyrodontaceae, Paxillaceae, Strobilomycetaceae
(44 pictures)

Tricholomataceae - Tricholoma flavovirens, the type species of the genus Tricholoma
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Tricholomataceae - Tricholoma nudum = Lepista nuda, the blewit, a good edible ectomycorrhizal species (which crops up every year under the conifers in my garden)
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Tricholomataceae - Armillaria mellea, the honey fungus
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Tricholomataceae - bootlaces (rhizomorphs) of Armillaria, developing under bark
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Tricholomataceae - Catathelasma imperialis, a large ectomycorrhizal fungus that resembles the pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare) but lacks its edibility and its spicy aroma.
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Tricholomataceae - Collybia cookei fruiting on a dead agaric
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Tricholomataceae - Collybia tuberosa
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Tricholomataceae - Collybia racemosa with its synnematal Sclerostilbum anamorph growing along the stipe
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Tricholomataceae - Flammulina velutipes, the velvet stipe, a lignicolous (wood-inhabiting) species that fruits in winter
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Tricholomataceae - Laccaria laccata, a very common and rather variable ectomycorrhizal species
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Tricholomataceae - Lyophyllum decastes, the fried chicken mushroom
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Tricholomataceae - Marasmius oreades,
the fairy ring mushroom
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Tricholomataceae - Mycena leiana with marginate gills (the edges are orange-red)
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Tricholomataceae - Nyctalis asterophora attacking Lactarius. The cap of the parasite becomes a mass of conidia, so what looks like a teleomorph is in fact an anamorph
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Tricholomataceae - Xeromphalina campanella fruiting in large aggregations on a dead stump
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Tricholomataceae - Xerula radicata (formerly Collybia radicata and then Oudemansiella radicata) (now placed in a segregate family, the Xerulaceae)
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Russulaceae - characteristic basidiospores, with ornamentations that stain blue in Melzer's reagent (which provides the yellow background)
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Russulaceae - Russula emetica, a typical species with a brightly coloured cap
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Russulaceae - Macowanites sp., a sequestrate derivative of Russula
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Russulaceae - basidiospores of the sequestrate Macowanites, stained in Melzer's reagent and showing its connection to Russula
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Russulaceae - Lactarius vinaceorufescens, with white milk rapidly turning yellow
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Russulaceae - Zelleromyces gilkeyae, a sequestrate derivative of Lactarius
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Boletaceae - the characteristic reticulum (network) on the stipe of Boletus.
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Boletaceae - Boletus edulis - the cep (France), steinpilz (Germany), porcini (Italy) of Europe. This is a variable species that also occurs all over North America.
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Boletaceae - another form of Boletus edulis from Ontario. All varieties share the light brown cap and yellow tube mouths
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Boletaceae - Boletus frostii mycorrhizal with oaks in Southern Ontario
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Boletaceae - Tylopilus felleus, (unfortunately) the bitter bolete, with pink tube mouths, flourishing in Algonquin Park, Ontario.

Boletaceae - the sequestrate Gastroboletus. In common with many other boletes, its tissues stain blue when exposed to air
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Boletaceae - Suillus spraguei - note the partial veil
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Boletaceae - the sequestrate Truncocolumella rubra
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Boletaceae - sectioned basidioma of Rhizopogon parksii, showing spongy hymenium, absence of stipe, despite close relationship to Suillus
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Gomphidiaceae - young basidiomata of Gomphidius subroseus
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Strobilomycetaceae - Strobilomyces floccopus
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If you are interested in relationships among the Agaricales, may I recommend that you visit the following web page, where phylogenetic schemes based on molecular evidence are posted. http://www.botany.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/agarical.htm

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