D I S C O V E R    L I F E      Home • All Living Things • IDnature guides • Global mapper • Albums • Labels • Search   About • Research • Education • Proceedings • Polistes Foundation • Partners • Links • Help

Basidiomycota Mushrooms; Rusts; Smuts; Basidiomycetes; Club fungi

Links

Higher taxa:  Life   Fungi   IDnature guides: Groups_Fungi, North_American_Invasives

Kinds

Aecidium Agaricaceae Agonomycetaceae Albatrellaceae Amanitaceae Anthracoideaceae Aphelariaceae Aporpiaceae Arachniaceae Asterogastraceae Astraeaceae Atheliaceae Atractogloeaceae Auriculariaceae Auriscalpiaceae Bankeraceae Bolbitiaceae Boletaceae Boletinellaceae Boletogastraceae Bondarzewiaceae Boreostereaceae Botryobasidiaceae Brachybasidiaceae Broomeiaceae Calostomataceae Cantharellaceae Ceratobasidiaceae Cerinomycetaceae Chaconiaceae Chionosphaeraceae Christianseniaceae Cintractiaceae Clathraceae Claustulaceae Clavariaceae Clavulinaceae Clintamraceae Coleosporiaceae Coniophoraceae Coprinaceae Corticiaceae Cortinariaceae Cribbiaceae Cronartiaceae Cryptobasidiaceae Cryptomycocolacaceae Cuniculitremaceae Cyphellaceae Cystofilobasidiaceae Cystostereaceae Dacrymycetaceae Dematiaceae Dermatosoraceae Discellaceae Doassansiaceae Doassansiopsidaceae Eballistraceae Echinodontiaceae Entolomataceae Entorrhizaceae Entylomataceae Epitheliaceae Exidiaceae Exobasidiaceae Farysiaceae Filobasidiaceae Fistulinaceae Fomitopsidaceae Ganodermataceae Gasterellaceae Gastrosporiaceae Gauteriaceae Geastraceae Gelopellidaceae Geminaginaceae Georgefischeriaceae Glischodermataceae Gloeophyllaceae Glomosporiaceae Gomphaceae Gomphidiaceae Grammotheleaceae Graphiolaceae Gyroporaceae Hapalopilaceae Hemigasteraceae Hericiaceae Heterogastridiaceae Hoehnelomycetaceae Hyaloriaceae Hybogasteraceae Hydnaceae Hydnangiaceae Hygrophoraceae Hygrophoropsidaceae Hymenochaetaceae Hymenogasteraceae Hymenogastraceae Hyphodermataceae Hysterangiaceae Lachnocladiaceae Lepiotaceae Leptostromataceae Leucogastraceae Lycoperdaceae Marasmiaceae Melamporaceae Melampsoraceae Melanconiaceae Melaniellaceae Melanogastraceae Melanogastrales Melanopsichiaceae Melanotaeniaceae Meripilaceae Meruliaceae Mesophelliaceae Microbotryaceae Microstromataceae Mikronegeriaceae Mixiaceae Moniliaceae Mycenastraceae Nectroidaceae Niaceae Nidulariaceae Octavianinaceae Oliveoniaceae Pachnocybaceae Paxillaceae Peniophoraceae Phakopsoraceae Phallaceae Phanerochaetaceae Phleogenaceae Phragmidiaceae Phragmoxenidiaceae Pileolariaceae Platygloeaceae Pleurotaceae Pluteaceae Podaxaceae Podoscyphaceae Polyporaceae Protogastraceae Protophallaceae Pterulaceae Pucciniaceae Pucciniastraceae Pucciniosiraceae Ramariaceae Raveneliaceae Rhamphosporaceae Rhizopogonaceae Rhodophyllaceae Rhynchogastremataceae Russulaceae Schizophyllaceae Schizoporaceae Sclerodermataceae Secotiaceae Septobasidiaceae Sirobasidiaceae Sistotremataceae Sparassidaceae Sphaerobolaceae Sphaerophragmiaceae Sphaeropsidaceae Sporidiobolaceae Steccherinaceae Stephanosporaceae Stereaceae Stilbellaceae Strophariaceae Suillaceae Syzygosporaceae Thelephoraceae Tilletiaceae Tilletiariaceae Torrendiaceae Tremellaceae Tremellodendropsidaceae Tricholomataceae Tuberculariaceae Tubulicrinaceae Tulasnellaceae Tulostomataceae Typhulaceae Uncolaceae Uredo Urocystaceae Uropyxidaceae Ustilaginaceae Ustilentylomataceae Volvariaceae Websdaneaceae Xenasmataceae Xerulaceae

Overview

Fungi that, if multicellular, bear the products of meiosis on club-shaped basidia and possess a long-lasting dikaryotic stage. Some are unicellular.

Phylogeny

Tree of Life

Links to other sites

The Microbial World: Basidiomycota: activities and lifestyle, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh Basidiomycota: Taxonomy and Photos, Florida Nature

Acknowledgements

Ashley MacDonald, University of Georgia, Athens I thank John Pickering for his assistance with the development of this page.

Updated: 2009-11-21 08:25:45 gmt

Discover Life | Top

© Designed by The Polistes Corporation