Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi made up of hyphae. Most reproduce sexually through spores called basidiaspores which are produced externally by the basidia. These are classified under basidiomycota 3 subphyla Pucciniomycotina, Ustilaginomycotina, Agaricomycotina and 2 other class level taxa Wallemiomycetes, Entorrhizomycetes.. Basidiomycota include species like the mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast, Cryptococcus.

 

·         37% of it is true fungi

·         About 30,000 species

·         Found in nearly all terrestrial ecosystems, freshwater and marine habitats.

·         unicellular or multicellular, sexual or asexual, and terrestrial or aquatic

·         germinate to form hyphae or yeast cells

·         obtain nutrients by decaying dead organic matter

·         attack the wood in buildings and other structures

 

 

~ by mb0804myco on August 3, 2008.