Bolbitiaceae

Bolbitiaceae
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Bolbitius titubans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Bolbitiaceae Singer (1948)
Type genus
Bolbitius Fr. (1838)
Genera
Agrogaster Bolbitius Conocybe Cyphellopus Cyttarophyllopsis Descolea Galerella Galeropsis Gymnoglossum Pholiotina Ptychella Rhodoarrhenia Tubariella Tubariopsis Tympanella Wielandomyces

The Bolbitiaceae are a family of basidiomycete fungi. There are 17 genera and 171 species in the family.

Description

This family is of mushroom-forming species that have a hymenium on gills, brown spores and a hymenoderm pileipellis.

Differences in genera

Bolbitius are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with gelatinous cap surface. These lack a veil, are saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass.

Conocybe are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass. These have cheilocystidia which are capitate.

Pholiotina are mushrooms which are thin, Mycena-like, with a dry cap surface. These are small and saprotrophic, and tend to be found with grass, and have a veil. Some have a membranous veil, mid-stipe, others the veil breaks up and can be found on the cap margin. These are separated from Conocybe in that the cheilocystidia are non-capitate.

Descolea includes Pholiotina-like mushrooms that are ectomycorrhizal and have limoniform spores.

See also

• List of Agaricales families

External links

• Bolbitiaceae in Index Fungorum