Agarics gilled fungi

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Agaric, or fungus with gills. The caps of this group of fungi may sit on top of a stem or be attached laterally, by one side to the substrate either by a very small stem or no stem at all.

This heading will capture those fungal images that have good characteristics shown though are not, at this stage easily identifiable. They may belong to one of a number of genera, or even families and at this stage am unable to take the identification any further.

Clarification of Taxonomy or classification

Most of the subjects in these photos would belong to the Agaricales. Agaricales is an order, in the taxonomic sense, which makes it a higher level category than a family.

However some agarics are closely related to boletes and so the subjects of some photos might belong to the Boletales.

Agarics gilled fungi is listed in the following regions: