Abstract:[Background] Cyclocybe chaxingu has high edible and medicinal values. Strengthening the breeding of elite strains is the premise for promoting the development of the C. chaxingu industry. At present, crossing is a common method in the breeding of edible fungi, and the acquisition of monokaryons and identification of the mating type is the basic work in the breeding of edible fungi. [Objective] To identify the mating type of C. chaxingu and evaluate the influence of mating type on the mycelial growth rate of monokaryons, thus laying a theoretical foundation for the crossing of C. chaxingu. [Methods] The protoplast monokaryons of C. chaxingu Gancha AS-5 were obtained by protoplast monokaryotation, and the standard tester strains were ascertained by mutual mating of monokaryotized protoplasts. Furthermore, basidiospores were collected. The basidiospore-derived monokaryons were matched with standard tester strains and with each other, respectively, and then the mating type of monokaryons was classified. The mating type of monokaryons was identified by oak wood extract-squeezed orange juice agar (OWE-SOJ), nuclear migration test, and molecular identification. [Results] A total of 420 monokaryons were collected and classified into four types, including 69, 126, 148, and 77 of T1, T2, T3, and T4, which accounted for 16.43%, 30.00%, 35.24%, and 18.33%, respectively. The results of OWE-SOJ, nuclear migration test, and molecular identification showed that the mating types of T1, T2, T3, and T4 were A1B1, A2B2, A2B1, and A1B2, respectively. The mating combinations of monokaryons randomly selected from the identification results could form fruiting bodies. Both A and B factors had significant effects on the mycelial growth rate of monokaryons, and the effect of B factor was greater than that of A factor. [Conclusion] OWE-SOJ, nuclear migration, and molecular techniques can accurately identify the mating type of monokaryons. Partial segregation appeared in the mating of monokaryons. There is an association between the mycelial growth rate and mating type of C. chaxingu monokaryons.