agarics & Agaricales


This site provides basic information about all scientific names that

  • refer to a genus of Fungi

  • include gilled mushrooms (agarics),
    or belong to the order Agaricales,
    or both

  • whether accepted or not.


Compiled are 1,520 generic names.

   676 are accepted. These include

  • 484 accepted genera of agarics,
    • partly overlapping with
  • 587 accepted genera in Agaricales.

   844 are deprecated.


These were last updated March 16, 2026.

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Kalichman, J., Kirk, P.M. & Matheny, P.B. 2020. A compendium of generic names of agarics and Agaricales. Taxon 69(3): 425–447. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12240

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