Hygrophorineae, Dentinger & Gaya & O'Brien & Suz & Lachlan & Diaz-Valderrama & Koch & Aime, 2016

Dentinger, BTM, Gaya, E, O'Brien, H, Suz, LM, Lachlan, R, Diaz-Valderrama, JR, Koch, RA & Aime, MC, 2016, Tales from the crypt: genome mining from fungarium specimens improves resolution of the mushroom tree of life, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117, pp. 11-32 : 26

Hygrophorineae Aime, Dentinger & Gaya subord. nov.

Name registration: IF551135

Type family: Hygrophoraceae Lotsy, Vortr. bot. Stammesgesch: 706 (1907).

Basidiomata primarily clavarioid or agaricoid, often pigmented with carotenoids and waxy. Hyphae monomitic, usually with clamp connections, nonamyloid. Cystidia normally absent; basidia normally 2–4 spored; basidiospores hyaline.

Representative families: Clavariaceae Chevall. , Hygrophoraceae .

Notes: This suborder is equivalent to Hygrophoraceae and Clavariaceae sensu Matheny et al. (2006) and Hygrophoroid clade plus Clavariaceae fide Bin- der et al. (2010). Ryberg & Matheny (2011) also recovered a statistically support monophyletic group of Hygrophoraceae and Clavariaceae . There is growing evidence that the preponderance of species may be biotrophic and many members form associations with grasses, mosses, and bryophytes ( Seitzman et al., 2011; Birkebak et al., 2013; Halbwachs et al., 2013; Lodge et al., 2014). Development of carotenoid pigments is also especially diverse in this suborder.