The Hymenomycetes Class is split into smaller groups, called Orders. Below is a list of some Hymenomycetes Orders:
Agaricales Order: Includes Agarics (most gilled mushrooms). Some examples include: Honey Mushroom, Meadow Mushrrom, and Death Cap.
Boletales Order: Includes Boletes. Examples: King Bolete, Slippery Jack, Common Scaber Stalk, and Pungent Suillus.
Aphyllopharales Order: Includes Polypores, Coral Fungi, Tooth Fungi, Crust Fungi, and Parchment Fungi. Some examples are: Crowded Parchment, Mossy Maple Polypore, and Bearded Tooth.
Russulales Order: Includes Russulas and Milkys. Examples: Emetic Russula, Fragile Russula, Deceptive Milky, and Dirty Milky.
Cantharellales Order: Includes Chanterelles, some of the best known edible mushrooms. Some examples include: Smooth Chanterelle, Trumpet Chanterelle, and Pig's Ear Gomphus.
All of the Orders above have been split into smaller groups, called Families. Families are then split into Genera. Remember, as each group gets smaller, organisms in that group are more and more alike. Each Genus will contain individual Species.
Information on specific Families and Genera is not included on this website, but you can find out which groups a species belongs to by checking the Classification Box at the bottom of each Species Page. See the example of a Honey Mushroom below:
Honey Mushroom: