The Aphyllophorales is an obsolete order of fungi in the Basidiomycota.
[1] The order Aphyllophorales was first proposed in 1922 by Carleton Rea.
As originally conceived, the Aphyllophorales contained the families Clavariaceae, Cyphellaceae, Fistulinaceae, Hydnaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Polystictaceae, and Thelephoraceae.
[2] Most of these families are still current, albeit in an amended form.
[3] Though many attempts were made to create a more natural classification of the Basidiomycota, the Aphyllophorales continued to be used (at least by some) until entirely superseded in the 1990s by classification systems based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences.