Fungi Families/Types Identity Parade

Mycologists arrange fungi into classes > orders > families > genera > species. Fungus orders and families are the basis for most of the Identification sections of this Guide.

Pictures, habitat descriptions, spore colour, and macroscopic / microscopic identifying features of more than 600 fungi species, with links to picture galleries and detailed identification guides for each individual species.

For ease of use we have grouped all jelly fungi (heterobasidiomycetes) together. Similarly all bracket and crust fungi are also grouped, as also are the various puffballs, earthballs, earthstars and stiltballs that, together with stinkhorns, are by tradition called gasteromycetes (even though there is no scientific justification for their being categorised together other than the fact that they all produce spores inside some kind of ball or 'stomach').

Only the most common families are included in the table above; however, full details of hundreds of species, arranged alphabetically in their mycological families, can be accessed via our Fungi Family Index Page...

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