The Gomphales are an
order of
basidiomycete fungi
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. Some or all families belonging to Gomphales have been sometimes included in the order
Phallales (and ''vice versa'' - they are also sometimes treated as synonyms), the now-obsolete Ramariaceae was also previously included in
Cantharellales. Recent
phylogenetic
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analyses include in Gomphales the families of the original description of the order by
Walter Jülich, with addition of
Clavariadelphaceae
The Clavariadelphaceae are a family of fungi belonging in what is classically known as the Gomphales order, or cladistically as the gomphoid-phalloid clade. First described by British botanist E.J.H. Corner in 1970, the family has 2 genera and ...
.
According to one 2008 estimate, the Gomphales contain 18 genera and 336 species.
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Basidiomycota orders
Taxa named by Walter Jülich
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