Lyophyllaceae
family of fungi
The Lyophyllaceae is a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. A 2008 estimate indicated eight genera and 157 species; as of November 2014, the Catalog of Life lists 13 genera in the family. The taxon was originally circumscribed in 1938 by mycologist Robert Kühner as the tribe Lyophylleae (in the family Tricholomataceae), but raised to the taxonomic rank of family and renamed the Lyophyllaceae by Walter Jülich in 1981.
Some species are popular as edible fungi, such as the brown beech mushroom Hypsizygus tessulatus, the St. George's mushroom Calocybe gambosa, and Lyophyllum shimeji.
Taxonomy
Leucocybe, Atractosporocybe, and Rhizocybe are genera that were segregated from Clitocybe based on molecular phylogenetic studies that found that these clades were more closely related to the families Lyophyllaceae and Entolomataceae than to Clitocybe proper. Subsequent studies have found that these genera, along with Hypsizygus, are part of a larger clade that forms a sister group to the family Lyophyllaceae. This clade together, with the core Lyophyllaceae clade, are often designated Lyophyllaceae sensu lato in (as of 2025) current mycological literature. Lyophyllaceae sensu lato in turn is a sister group to the Entolomataceae.
Genera
The family currently includes the following clades and genera:
Lyophyllaceae sensu stricto
Asterophora
Blastosporella
Calocybe
Calocybella
Gerhardtia
Lyophyllopsis
Lyophyllum
Myochromella
Ossicaulis
Rugosomyces
Sagaranella
Tephrocybe
Tephrocybella
Termitomyces
Termitosphaera
Lyophyllaceae sensu lato
Atractosporocybe
Hypsizygus
Leucocybe
Rhizocybe
Trichocybe
See also
List of Agaricales families
References
External links
"Lyophyllaceae Jülich, 1982".
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