Acantholichen Aeruginospora Ampulloclitocybe Aphroditeola Arrhenia Cantharellula Cantharocybe Chromosera Chrysomphalina Cora Corella[2] Cuphophyllus Cyphellostereum Dictyonema Eonema Gliophorus Gloioxanthomyces Haasiella Hygroaster Hygrocybe Hygrophorus Humidicutis Lichenomphalia Neohygrocybe Porpolomopsis Pseudoarmillariella Semiomphalina The Hygrophoraceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales.

[3] None is of any great economic importance, though fruit bodies of some Hygrocybe and Hygrophorus species are considered edible and may be collected for sale in local markets.

The family Hygrophoraceae was first proposed by Dutch botanist Johannes Paulus Lotsy (1907) to accommodate agarics with thick, waxy lamellae (gills) and white spores.

[6] Cornelis Bas (1990),[7] however, did not consider the group distinct, placing the hygrophoroid genera within the Tricholomataceae, a disposition followed by the next (2001) edition of the Dictionary of the Fungi.

[9] Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, suggests the Hygrophoraceae are distinct from the Tricholomataceae and are monophyletic (and hence a natural grouping).

[14] Examples of wild mushrooms collected and sold include Hygrophorus russula, H. purpurascens, H. chrysodon, and H. hypothejus in Mexico,[15] and H. eburneus and H. latitabundus in the Spanish Pyrenees.