The sizes of fruiting bodies vary greatly - the fruiting bodies of some species are quite large, and some mushrooms are not visible to the naked eye.
Most representatives of the order are keratinophilic saprotrophs . Some are coprotrophs.
Some fungi in the order cause various mammalian diseases, for example, histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis .
The closest relatives of onigenic ones are included in the eurocium order.
Synonyms
- Gymnoascales G. Winter , 1884
Representatives
- Ajellomycetaceae Unter. , JA Scott & Sigler , 2004
- Arthrodermataceae Locq. ex Currah , 1985
- Gymnoascaceae Baran. , 1872
- Onygenaceae Berk. , 1857 - Onigenic
