The Agaricaceae are a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of basidiomycete fungi and includes the genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 Agaricus, as well as basidiomycetes previously classified in the families Tulostomataceae, Lepiotaceae, and Lycoperdaceae

Lycoperdaceae

Lycoperdaceae is a family of approximately 150 fungi now known to lie in the Agaricales. Historically they were placed in their own order Lycoperdales. Members of the Lycoperdaceae family are known as the true puffballs. Unlike other types of fungi that hold spores in gills or teeth, puffballs...

. The genus contains 85 genera and 1340 species.

Genera

Genera Leucoagaricus

Leucoagaricus

Leucoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus contains approximately 90 species.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

and Leucocoprinus

Leucocoprinus

Leucocoprinus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its best known member is the yellow pot-plant mushroom , found worldwide. The type species is Leucocoprinus cepistipes...

are known to be cultivated by fungus-growing ants in ant-fungus mutualism

Ant-fungus mutualism

Ant-fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen in certain ant and fungal species, where ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. In some species, the ants and fungi are dependent on each other for survival. The leafcutter ant is a well known example of this symbiosis...

. The extinct genus Coprinites

Coprinites

Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae. At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana....

is one of four known agaricalean genera in the fossil record.

The family currently includes the following genera:

• Agaricus
  Agaricus
  Agaricus is a large and important genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide...
  
  
• Allopsalliota
  Allopsalliota
  Allopsalliota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. A monotypic genus, it consists of the single species Allopsalliota geesterani.-External links:*...
  
  
• Anellaria
• Barcheria
  Barcheria
  Barcheria is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Barcheria willisiana.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bovista
  Bovista
  Bovista is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae, commonly known as the true puffballs. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the species of Bovista are...
  
  
• Calvatia
  Calvatia
  Calvatia is a genus of puffball mushrooms which includes the spectacular giant puffball C. gigantea. It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the puffballs,...
  
  
• Chamaemyces
  Chamaemyces
  Chamaemyces is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle in 1906....
  
  
• Chlorophyllum
  Chlorophyllum
  Chlorophyllum is a genus of large agarics similar in appearance to the true parasol mushroom. Chlorophyllum was originally coined in 1898, a time when spore color was the deciding factor for differentiating genera...
  
  
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  Extinction
  In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...
  
  Coprinites
  Coprinites
  Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae. At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana....
  
  
• Coprinus
  Coprinus
  Coprinus is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of Coprinus comatus and several of its close relatives. Until 2001, Coprinus was a large genus consisting of all agaric species in which the lamellae autodigested to release their spores...
  
  
• Cystoagaricus
  Cystoagaricus
  Cystoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the Psathyrellaceae family. The genus contains four species found in subtropical America....
  
  
• Cystoderma
  Cystoderma
  Cystoderma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.The name probably comes from the Greek kýstis meaning pouch and derma meaning skin.-List of species:Below is an incomplete list of Cystoderma species....
  
  
• Cystodermella
  Cystodermella
  Cystodermella is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.The genus comprises approximately 12 species, noted for producing agaric fruiting bodies, bearing a cap, white gills and stem with a fine, ephemeral ring...
  
  
• Cystolepiota
  Cystolepiota
  Cystolepiota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-Species:A list of Cystolepiota species is presented below.* C. adulterina* C. bucknallii* C. constricta* C. fumosifolia* C. hetieri* C. luteohemisphaerica...
  
  
• Endoptychum
  Endoptychum
  Endoptychum is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Like the majority of secotioid taxa, the individual species of Endoptychum are thought to be recent mutations from agaricoid species, hence, Endoptychum is likely not a valid monophyletic genus.So far, molecular phylogeny and...
  
  
• Gyrophragmium
  Gyrophragmium
  Gyrophragmium is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was circumscribed by botanist Camille Montagne in 1843....
  
  
• Hymenagaricus
  Hymenagaricus
  Hymenagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...
  
  
• Lepiota
  Lepiota
  Lepiota is a genus of gilled mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. All Lepiota species are ground-dwelling saprotrophs with a preference for rich, calcareous soils. Basidiocarps are agaricoid with whitish spores, typically with scaly caps and a ring on the stem. Around 400 species of Lepiota are...
  
  
• Leucoagaricus
  Leucoagaricus
  Leucoagaricus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus contains approximately 90 species.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...
  
  
• Leucocoprinus
  Leucocoprinus
  Leucocoprinus is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Its best known member is the yellow pot-plant mushroom , found worldwide. The type species is Leucocoprinus cepistipes...
  
  
• Lycoperdon
  Lycoperdon
  Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 50 species. In general, it contains the smaller species such as the pear shaped puffball and the gem studded puffball. Most of the time they grow from dead wood and if they grow through the...
  
  
• Macrolepiota
  Macrolepiota
  Macrolepiota is a genus of white spored, gilled mushrooms of the family Agaricaceae. The best known member is the parasol mushroom . The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about 30 species....
  
  
• Melanophyllum
  Melanophyllum
  Melanophyllum is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The widespread genus contains three species....
  
  
• Micropsalliota
  Micropsalliota
  Micropsalliota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae....
  
  
• Montagnea
  Montagnea
  Montagnea is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution in subtropical dry areas, and contains five species....
  
  
• Notholepiota
  Notholepiota
  Notholepiota is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...
  
  
• Podaxis
  Podaxis
  Podaxis is a genus of secotioid fungi in the family Agaricaceae. Species, which have the appearance of a "stalked-puffball", have a worldwide distribution, and tend to be found growing solitary or scattered on sandy soils, especially in arid regions...
  
  
• Ripartitella
  Ripartitella
  Ripartitella is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...
  
  
• Smithiomyces
  Smithiomyces
  Smithiomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. It was circumscribed by Rolf Singer in 1944. The type species, S. mexicanus, was formerly placed in Amanita, as well as the now obsolete Leucomyces and Venenarius. The genus was named to honor American mycologist Alexander H. Smith....
  
  
• Tulostoma
  Tulostoma
  Tulostoma is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...
  
  
• Verrucospora
  Verrucospora
  Verrucospora is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae....
  
  
• Volvolepiota