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Agaricales
The fungal
order
Agaricales
, also known as
gilled mushrooms
(for their distinctive
gill
s) or
euagarics
, contains some of the most familiar types of
mushrooms
. The
order
has 33
extant
families
, 413
genera
, and over 13000 described
species
, along with five
extinct
genera known only from the fossil record. They range from the ubiquitous
common mushroom
to the deadly
destroying angel
and the
hallucinogen
ic
fly agaric
to the
bioluminescent
jack-o-lantern mushroom
.
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