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Waxcaps and Allies
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 evidence has extended the limits of the family, so it now contains not only agarics, but also basidiolichens and corticioid fungi. Species are thus diverse and are variously ectomycorrhizal, lichenized, associated with mosses, or saprotrophic. The family contains 25 genera and over 600 species. None...
12 branches of this family, most-observed first
Hygrocyboideae
subfamilyHygrocyboideae
Lichenomphalioideae
subfamilyLichenomphalioideae
Hygrophoroideae
subfamilyHygrophoroideae
Cuphophylloideae
subfamilyCuphophylloideae
Melanomphalia
genusMelanomphalia
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'CA02'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'CA02'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'IN01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'IN01'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'GA01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'GA01'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'NY01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'NY01'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'TN01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'TN01'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'PR01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'PR01'
Hygrophoraceae sp. 'MI01'
speciesHygrophoraceae sp. 'MI01'
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51870.