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AGARICALES 



Family 72. CLAVARIACEAE 



6:690; K 151 



Pileus erect, simple or much branched, clavate or capitate to coralloid, rarely 

 foliose, typically fleshy, sometimes leathery or waxy, rarely subgelatinous; hymenium 

 smooth, not discrete, amphigenous; cystidia lacking; spores typically simple, hyaline, 

 rarely brownish. 



Sparassis 6:690, K 157; 42 



Physalacria 6:759; K 151; 42 



Clavaria 6:692, K 152; 42 



A. Pileus with many crowded leaf-like branches; 



fleshy 



B. Pileus without leaf-like branches 



1. Pileus capitate, hollow, more or less globoid, 



waxy 



2. Pileus not capitate and hollow, but filamentous, 



clavate or coralloid 



a. Pileus typically fleshy, large and coralloid, 



sometimes filamentous or clavate 



b. Pileus waxy, cartilaginous or leathery, small, 



simple or ramose 



(1) Pileus tomentose, leathery, much branched Lachnocladium 6:738, K 156 



(2) Pileus not tomentose, mostly simple 



(a) Pileus simple, clavate to filamentous 



X. Stipe short or none; basidia 2-sterig- 



mate Pistillaria 6:752, K 152; 42 



y. Stipe long-filiform, usually from a scle- 



rotium; basidia 4-sterigmate Typhula 6:743, K 152 



(b) Pileus ramose, cartilaginous Pterula 6:740, K 156 



Family 73. HYDNACEAE 



6:429; K 158 



Pileus resupinate, dimidiate or cap-like, occasionally coralloid, leathery, corky 

 or fleshy; hymenium typically with teeth or warts, sometimes pore-like or lamel- 

 loid, occasionally wrinkled, exceptionally reduced to groups of teeth without a pileus; 

 cystidia often present; spores simple, hyaline or dark. 



A. Hymenium consisting of crests or warts 



1. Hymenium of crests or ridges 



a. Crests with edge incised; pileus membranous 



b. Crests not incised; pileus fleshy-waxy 



2. Hymenium with warts or granules 



a. Warts semi-globose, smooth; cystidia lacking 



b. Warts penicillate, ciliate; cystidia present 



B. Hymenium consisting of teeth, often poriform or 



lamelloid 

 1. Teeth distinct 



a. Hymenophore lacking; teeth subulate, re- 



curved, cespitose 



b. Hymenophore present 



(1) Cystidia present; pileus resupinate 



(a) Cystidia simple; pileus corky 



(b) Cystidia stellate; pileus floccose-mem- 



branous 



(2) Cystidia lacking 



(a) Pileus crustose, waxy; teeth blunt, stout 



Lopharia 6:500, K 161; 43 

 Phlcbia 6:497; K 160 



Grandinia 6:500, K 160 

 Odontia 6:506, K 159; 43 



Mucronella 6:512, K 159 



Hydnochaetc 14:211, K 162; 43 

 Asterodon 11:111, K 162 

 Radulum 6:493. K 161; 43 



