Agaric
[1][2] "Agaric" can also refer to a basidiomycete species characterized by an agaric-type fruiting body.Originally, agaric meant 'tree-fungus' (after Latin agaricum); however, that changed with the Linnaean interpretation in 1753 when Linnaeus used the generic name Agaricus for gilled mushrooms.The exceptions, where agarics have evolved independently, feature largely in the orders Russulales, Boletales, Hymenochaetales, and several other groups of basidiomycetes.Contemporary sources now tend to use the term euagarics to refer to all agaric members of the Agaricales.[4] More recently, DNA studies revealed that agarics are not necessarily closely related to each other, and that mushroom gills are an example of convergent evolution.