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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
(Gasteromycetes)
(Puffballs, Earthstars, Earthballs, Stinkhorns, Truffles Etc)
Gasteromycetes
is also a member of:
Fungi sl.
Lower Plants
(via Fungi ss.)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

(Gasteromycetes) (Puffballs, Earthstars, Earthballs, Stinkhorns, Truffles Etc)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #notes #refs
Class ORBILIOMYCETES (glasscups) 15          
Order ORBILIALES (glasscups) 15 7 4 12   21
Genus Hydnotrya Berk. & Broome, 1846 (a genus of truffles) 1          
Species Hydnotrya cubispora (E.A. Bessey & B.E. Thomps.) Gilkey, 1939 (a truffle)           2
Family TUBERACEAE Dumort., 1822 (a family of truffles) 4 6   10   10
Order ELAPHOMYCETALES Trappe, 1979 (an order of hypogeous ascomycetes) 3          
Family ELAPHOMYCETACEAE Tul. ex Paol., 1889 (a family of hypogeous ascomycetes) 3 10 2 11   4
Species Hydnangium carneum Wallr., 1839 (a truffle)           2
Family HYGROPHORACEAE (waxcaps and woodwaxes) 60          
Species Ampulloclitocybe clavipes (Pers.) Redhead, Lutzoni, Moncalvo & Vilgalys, 2002 (Club Foot)   8     3  
Genus Camarophyllopsis Herink, 1959 (fanvaults) 4 45 8 27   8
Genus Hygrocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871 (waxcaps) 44 542 343 111 113 51
Genus Hygrophorus Fr., 1836 (woodwax toadstools) 9 60 14 9 19 7
Genus Lichenomphalia Redhead, Lutzoni, Moncalvo & Vilgalys, 2002 (basidiolichen toadstools) 2 14     8 2
Family NIDULARIACEAE Dumort., 1822 (bird's nest fungi) 4 37 31   5 5
Family HYMENOGASTERACEAE Vittad., 1831 (a family of truffles) 2         8
Family OCTAVIANIACEAE Locq. ex Pegler & T.W.K. Young, 1979 (a family of gasteromycetes) 2          
Species Octaviania asterosperma Vittad., 1831 (a gasteromycete)           1
Species Wakefieldia macrospora (Hawker) Hawker, 1954 (a false truffle)           1
Family RHIZOPOGONACEAE Gäum. & C.W. Dodge, 1928 (beard truffles) 3          
Genus Rhizopogon Fr. & Nordholm, 1817 (beard truffles) 3 15   5   3
Family SCLERODERMATACEAE Corda, 1842 (earthballs and dyeballs) 5 22 50 41   7
Family STEPHANOSPORACEAE Oberw. & E. Horak, 1979 (a family of false truffles) 1          
Species Stephanospora caroticolor (Berk.) Pat., 1914 (a false truffle)           1
Family GEASTRACEAE Corda, 1842 (earthstars) 14 82 9 6 14 30
Genus Gautieria (a genus of false truffles)           3
Family HYSTERANGIACEAE E. Fisch., 1899 (a family of truffles)           1
Family PHALLACEAE Corda, 1842 (stinkhorns) 9 48   5 4 19
Order ENDOGONALES Moreau ex R.K. Benj., 1979 (pea truffles)           3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1986 Non-gilled Fungi
Demoulin, V. & Marriott, J.V.R., 1980 Key to the Gasteromycetes of Great Britain
Demoulin, V. & Marriott, J.V.R., 1981 Key to the Gasteromycetes of Great Britain
Gregory, P.H. & Nixon, H.L., 1950 Electron micrographs of spores of some British Gasteromycetes.
Hawker, L.E., 1954 British Hypogeous Fungi
Henderson, D.M., Orton, P.D. & Watling, R., 1969 Agarics and Boleti - Introduction
Pegler, D.N., Laessoe, T. & Spooner, B.M., 1995 (Basidiomycete species only) British Puffballs, Earthstars & Stinkhorns
Pegler, D.N., Spooner, B.M. & Young, T.W.K., 1993 British Truffles: a Revision of British Hypogeous Fungi

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 79 general literature references to (Gasteromycetes) (Puffballs, Earthstars, Earthballs, Stinkhorns, Truffles Etc)

(Gasteromycetes) may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 614 feeding and other relationships of (Gasteromycetes) (Puffballs, Earthstars, Earthballs, Stinkhorns, Truffles Etc)

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