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• Agaricomycetidae basidiome shapes includes mushrooms, conks, tubers, brackets, coral-like, jelly-like, "paint-like" smooth.
• The geometry of the hymenium in Agaricomycetidae can be gills (lamellae), folds/ridges, pores/tubes, teeth, or smooth.
• Parts of a mushroom in Agaricomycetidae include the mushroom primordium (egg stage) it expands to form the mature basidiodome, pileus (cap), stipe (stalk), veils (universal, partial, annulus, cortina, volva, scales, warts).
• The sterile context in Agaricomycetidae is the internal support tissue and sterile trama supporting the hymenium.
• The hymenium in Agaricomycetidae contains fertile basidia, which are Holobasidia (aseptate).
• Basidiospores in Agaricomycetidae are ballistospores or statismospores.
• Sterile cells in Agaricomycetidae include cystidia (cheilocystida and pleurocystidia), setae, and other types such as chrysocystidia and metuloid cystidia.
• The function of these sterile cells in Agaricomycetidae is unknown.
• There are 3 types of hyphae in Agaricomycetidae: generative, binding, and skeletal.
• There are 3 types of tissue in Agaricomycetidae: monomitic (generative), dimitic - generative/binding or generative/skeletal, trimitic - generative, binding, and skeletal.
• Phallomycetidae basidiome shapes include puff-ball, earthstar, splash cup, stinkhorn, and fungal cannon.
• The geometry of the basidiome can be sessile spherical, stalked spherical, egg-like peridioles, or phallus-like.
• Basidiomes various shapes:

  • Some with modified pileus (cap) that is wet or dry
  • stipe (stalk)
  • veils (skirt-like)
  • Many with multiple wall layers surrounding fertile tissue. (e.g., puff balls, earthstars, fungal cannon, phallus primordia)
• General Phallomycetidae basidiome anatomy (formerly Gasteromycetes), Mushroom primordia (egg stage) and expansion into a mature basidiome
• Phallomycetidae basidiome anatomy is characterized by basidiomes that are angiocarpic, monomitic, and determinate.
• The fertile tissue in Phallomycetidae basidiomes is known as the Gleba, which can be either wet or dry.
• Phallomycetidae basidiomes can be either dry, which is wind dispersed, or wet, which is insect dispersed.
• Some Phallomycetidae basidiomes are hypogeous, meaning they are phagologic.
• Peridioles are a method of rain splash dispersal in Phallomycetidae basidiomes.
• Basidiospores in Phallomycetidae basidiomes are statismospores, which are symmetrically attached or sessile, and are found on the sterigmata.
• Basidiomes are jelly-like masses of gelatinous tissue.
• The geometry of the basidiome can be irregular, cushion, coral-like, or ear-shaped.
• Basidiomes can be gymnocarpic, monomitic, and determinate or indeterminate.
• Fertile tissue in Dacrymycetes and Tremellomycetes is known as the Hymenium.
• Holobasidia (aseptate) tuning fork (deeply cleft) is a type of basidiome in Dacrymycetes and Tremellomycetes.
• Phragmobasidia (septate - transverse or longitudinal) is another type of basidiome in Dacrymycetes and Tremellomycetes.
• Basidiospores in Dacrymycetes and Tremellomycetes are typically ballistospores, which are typically septate.
• Repetition in Dacrymycetes and Tremellomycetes occurs when basidiospores continue to make ballistospores on sterigmata or conidi.