Cantharellales

Cantharellales
The chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Cantharellales Gäum. (1926)
Families
Aphelariaceae Botryobasidiaceae Cantharellaceae Ceratobasidiaceae Clavulinaceae Hydnaceae Tulasnellaceae
Synonyms
Botryobasidiales Jülich (1981) Ceratobasidiales Jülich (1981) Tulasnellales Rea (1922)

The Cantharellales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. The order includes not only the chanterelles (Cantharellaceae), but also some of the tooth fungi (Hydnaceae), clavarioid fungi (Aphelariaceae and Clavulinaceae), and corticioid fungi (Botryobasidiaceae). Species within the order are variously ectomycorrhizal, saprotrophic, associated with orchids, or facultative plant pathogens. Those of economic importance include edible and commercially collected Cantharellus, Craterellus, and Hydnum species as well as crop pathogens in the genera Ceratobasidium and Thanatephorus/Rhizoctonia.