Family: Tricholomataceae

Fungi:> Basidiomycota:> Basidiomycetes:> Agaricales:> Tricholomataceae:> Bertrandia, Camarophyllus, Gliophorus, Humidicutis, Insiticia, Hygrocybe, Hygrophorus, Collopus, Conchomyces, Crinipellis, Clitocybe, Cystoderma, Mycena, Mycenula, Rickenella, Tricholoma, Tricholomopsis, Xeromphalina.

This is the largest family of the agaricales, which is defined mainly by not having any characters which distinguish them from other families.

Genus: Conchomyces

Species: Conchomyces bursiformis
Common Name: None Found: Native forest Substrate: Decaying wood Spore: White	Height: 25 mm Width: 60 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Crinipellis

Species: Crinipellis procera Stevenson Grows from sticks on the forest floor. It has a twisted, horse hair like stem covered with fine velvet.
Common Name: Horsehair Fungus Found: Mixed Forest Substrate: Small twigs Spore: White	Height: 100 mm Width: 20 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Species: Crinipellis filiformis G. Stev.
Common Name: None Found: Broadleaved Forest Substrate: Fallen leaves Spore: White	Height: 25 mm Width: 3 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Clitocybe

The members of this genus with white spores, no volva nor annulus, the gills with thin edges not notched on the edge near the stem, and generally decurrent.

Species: Clitocybe gigantea
Common Name: Giant Clitocybe Found: Red wood forest Substrate: Ground litter Spore: White	Height: 150 mm Width: 300 mm Season: Autumn Edible: ?

Genus: Cystoderma

Species: Cystoderma clastotrichum
Common Name: None Found: Podocarp Forest Substrate: Wood Spore: White	Height: 80 mm Width: 45 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Omphalina

Species: Omphalina foetida
Common Name: None Found: Nothofagus Forests Substrate: Wood Spore: White	Height: 60 mm Width: 40 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Rickenella

Species: Rickenella fibula (Bull.) Raithelh.
Common Name: Orange mosscap Found: Mossy Grasslands Substrate: Ground Spore: White	Height: 7-40 mm Width: 3-10 mm Season: Autumn Edible: No

Genus: Tricholomopsis

Species: Tricholomopsis rutilans (Fr.) Sing. An introduced species that grows on dead pine trees. The cap appears to change colour from a maroon-purple to brown as the fungus ages.
Common Name: Plums & Custard Found: Pine Forest Substrate: Pine Trees stumps Spore: White	Height: 120 mm Width: 60 mm Season: ? Edible: No

Species: Tricholomopsis ornaticeps Very simlar to above but found in native forest
Common Name: None Found: Podocarp Forest Substrate: Dead wood Spore: White	Height: 120 mm Width: 100 mm Season: Autum Edible: No

Genus: Xeromphalina

Species: Xeromphalina tenuipes (Schw.) A. H. Smith
Common Name: None Found: Podocarp Forest Substrate: Wood Spore: White	Height: 120 mm Width: 60 mm Season: ? Edible: No

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