Kingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Basidiomycota This large and diverse phylum include mushrooms and toadstools, bracket fungi, puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns, club and coral fungi, tooth fungi, jelly fungi, rusts and smuts and certain yeasts. Most of the common fungi we see belong either here or under Ascomycota. The classes and orders where I have photos … Continue reading "Phylum Basidiomycota"
Read MoreKingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Ascomycota The ascomycetes are the sac fungi, so named because of the reproductive spores contained in a special sac called ascus during the sexual stage. Many of the ascomycetes live on dead organic matter and many are plant pathogens, some are animal pathogens and a few are edible mushrooms, examples of … Continue reading "Phylum Ascomycota"
Read MoreFungi are widely distributed throughout our planet and are of great medical and environmental importance. The kingdom of Fungi include yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, moulds & mushrooms. Slime moulds, although often referred to as fungi, are in the kingdom Chromista. Classification of fungi below the level of the kingdom is controversial and there doesn’t seem … Continue reading "Kingdom Fungi"
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