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• Erysiphaceae, family Erysiphaceae go
  family of fungi parasitic mostly on leaves
  
• Sphaeriaceae, family Sphaeriaceae go
  parasitic fungi having globose and sometimes necked or beaked perithecia
  
• Ceratostomataceae, family Ceratostomataceae go
  fungi having carbonous perithecia with long necks
  
• Hypocreaceae, family Hypocreaceae go
  family of fungi having brightly colored fleshy or membranous ascocarps
  
• Xylariaceae, family Xylariaceae go
  family of fungi characterized by dark brown to black spores
  
• Helotiaceae, family Helotiaceae go
  a fungus family of order Helotiales
  
• Sclerotiniaceae, family Sclerotiniaceae go
  a fungus family of order Helotiales
  
• Sclerodermataceae, family Sclerodermataceae go
  a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium
  
• Tulostomaceae, family Tulostomaceae, Tulostomataceae, family Tulostomataceae go
  stalked puffballs
  
• Rhizopogonaceae, family Rhizopogonaceae go
  a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores
  
• Mucoraceae, family Mucoraceae go
  large family of chiefly saprophytic fungi that includes many common molds destructive to food products
  
• Entomophthoraceae, family Entomophthoraceae go
  mostly parasitic lower fungi that typically develop in the bodies of insects
  
• Chytridiaceae, family Chytridiaceae go
  a family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales
  
• Blastodiaceae, family Blastodiaceae go
  a family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales
  
• Synchytriaceae, family Synchytriaceae go
  a fungus family of order Chytridiales
  
• Peronosporaceae, family Peronosporaceae go
  parasitic fungi: downy mildews
  
• Albuginaceae, family Albuginaceae go
  fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants
  
• Pythiaceae, family Pythiaceae go
  fungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
  
• Plasmodiophoraceae, family Plasmodiophoraceae go
  family of fungi often causing hypertrophy in seed plants
  
• Tuberaceae, family Tuberaceae go
  family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple
  
• Clavariaceae, family Clavariaceae go
  fleshy fungi: coral fungi
  
• Hydnaceae, family Hydnaceae go
  tooth fungi
  
• Lecanoraceae, family Lecanoraceae go
  a fungus family of the division Lichenes
  
• Roccellaceae, family Roccellaceae go
  a fungus family of division Lichenes
  
• Pertusariaceae, family Pertusariaceae go
  a fungus family of division Lichenes
  
• Usneaceae, family Usneaceae go
  fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria
  
• Cladoniaceae, family Cladoniaceae go
  a family of lichens
  
• Parmeliaceae, family Parmeliaceae go
  a family of lichens
  
• Agaricaceae, family Agaricaceae go
  large family including many familiar mushrooms
  
• Coprinaceae, family Coprinaceae go
  used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus
  
• Russulaceae, family Russulaceae go
  used in some classification systems for the genus Russula
  
• Strophariaceae, family Strophariaceae go
  sometimes included in family Agaricaceae
  
• Entolomataceae, family Entolomataceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Lepiotaceae, family Lepiotaceae go
  a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk
  
• Thelephoraceae, family Thelephoraceae go
  fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores
  
• Tricholomataceae, family Tricholomataceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Volvariaceae, family Volvariaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Pluteaceae, family Pluteaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Saccharomycetaceae, family Saccharomycetaceae go
  family of fungi comprising the typical yeasts: reproduce by budding and ferment carbohydrates
  
• Schizosaccharomycetaceae, family Schizosaccharomycetaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to order Endomycetales
  
• Aspergillaceae, family Aspergillaceae go
  family of fungi including some common molds
  
• Pezizaceae, family Pezizaceae go
  large family comprising many typical cup fungi
  
• Morchellaceae, family Morchellaceae go
  a family of edible fungi including the true morels
  
• Sarcoscyphaceae, family Sarcoscyphaceae go
  family of fungi belonging to the order Pezizales
  
• Helvellaceae, family Helvellaceae go
  family of false morels or lorchels
  
• Phallaceae, family Phallaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns
  
• Calostomataceae, family Calostomataceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Tulostomatales
  
• Clathraceae, family Clathraceae go
  family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns
  
• Lycoperdaceae, family Lycoperdaceae go
  a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales
  
• Geastraceae, family Geastraceae go
  a family of earthstar fungi belonging to the order Lycoperdales
  
• Nidulariaceae, family Nidulariaceae go
  bird's-nest fungi
  
• Sphaerobolaceae, family Sphaerobolaceae go
  monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity
  
• Secotiaceae, family Secotiaceae go
  a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced
  
• Polyporaceae, family Polyporaceae go
  fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees
  
• Fistulinaceae, family Fistulinaceae go
  a family of fungi closely related to the family Polyporaceae except that the tubes on the undersurface of the cap are separate from each other
  
• Boletaceae, family Boletaceae go
  family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other
  
• Tremellaceae, family Tremellaceae go
  a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally
  
• Auriculariaceae, family Auriculariaceae go
  fungi having gelatinous sporophores
  
• Dacrymycetaceae, family Dacrymycetaceae go
  a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
  
• Melampsoraceae, family Melampsoraceae go
  rust fungi
  
• Pucciniaceae, family Pucciniaceae go
  large important family of rust fungi
  
• Ustilaginaceae, family Ustilaginaceae go
  a fungus family of loose smuts
  
• Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae go
  a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster
  
• Septobasidiaceae, family Septobasidiaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota
  
• Hygrophoraceae, family Hygrophoraceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Cortinariaceae, family Cortinariaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
  
• Moniliaceae, family Moniliaceae go
  family of imperfect fungi having white or brightly colored hyphae and spores that are produced directly on the mycelium and not aggregated in fruiting bodies
  
• Dematiaceae, family Dematiaceae go
  family of imperfect mushrooms having dark-colored hyphae or conidia
  
• Tuberculariaceae, family Tuberculariaceae go
  large family of mainly saprophytic imperfect fungi
  
• Geoglossaceae, family Geoglossaceae go
  a family of fungi belonging to the order Helotiales