PLUTEACEAE Kotl. & Pouzar
(a family of toadstools)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Pluteus shield toadstools					Genus	20 subtaxa	470 images	32 ident. refs
Volvariella rosegill toadstools					Genus	10 subtaxa	188 images	23 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PLUTEACEAE (a family of toadstools)
Order	AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PLUTEACEAE is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Agaricales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Bas, C., Kuper, T.W., Noordeloos, M.E. & Vellinga, E.C.	1990	Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2	Flora Agaricina Neerlandica, Vol 2, 137pp, A. A. Balkema
Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F.	1995	Agarics, 2nd part	Fungi of Switzerland, Vol 4, 368pp, Mykologia, Lucerne
Kühner, R. & Romagnesi, H.	1956	Compléments a la "Flore analytique" VIII: Espéces nouvelles, critiques ou rares de Volvariacées	Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France Tome LXXII, Fasc 3.
Orton, P.D.	1986	Pluteaceae: Pluteus & Volvariella	British Fungus Flora, Agarics and Boleti, vol 4, 99pp, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
Velinga, E.C.		Pluteaceae Kotl. & P.	Bas, C. Pleurotaceae, 12pp, Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 2

PLUTEACEAE (a family of toadstools) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PLUTEACEAE (a family of toadstools)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 271 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PLUTEACEAE (a family of toadstools)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PLUTEACEAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)