[4] Tubaria was originally named as a subgenus of Agaricus by Worthington George Smith in 1870.

[5] Claude Casimir Gillet promoted it to generic status in 1876.

[6] The mushrooms produced by species in this genus are small- to medium-sized with caps ranging in color from pale pinkish-brown to reddish-brown, and often with remnants of the partial veil adhering to the margin.

Mushrooms fruit on rotting wood, or, less frequently, in the soil.

[7] As of January 2016[update], the nomenclatural authority Index Fungorum accepts 72 species of Tubaria:[8]