Basidiomycota

• The phylum basidiomycota has approximately 30,000 described species
• The phylum Basidiomycota include mushroom-forming fungi, jelly fungi, yeasts, rusts, and smuts
• Basidiospores - spores produced in Basidiomycota
• Basidia - where basidiospores form
• True or False: Dolipore septum is exclusive to Basidiomycota

  True
• Dolipore septum - partitions successive compartments along the length of the basidiomycete hyphae
• Karyogamy - the fusion of two nuclei
• Order: Agaricales - gilled mushrooms, puffballs, earthstars, bird's nest fungi
• Order: Boletales - spores are discharged from the surfaces of tubes beneath the mushroom cap. No gills
• Order: Polyporales - shelf fungi. They are wood decomposers
• Order: Russalales - milk caps. Form a variety of fruit bodies including mushrooms with Gills, teeth, tubes, little lozenges and flattened crusts, and intricate coral shapes
• Order: Phallales - fruiting body resembles the Phallus. Very stinky
• Ballistospory - catapult mechanism of spore discharge
• Order: Auriculariales - resembles the "ear."
• Class: Dacrymycetes - under the jelly fungi. It's shaped like a turning fork
• Class: Tremellomycetes - under the jelly fungi. Its basidium is divided into four separate compartments
• Subphylum: Ustilaginomycotina - aka Smuts. They're obligate pathogens of plants
• Subphylum: Pucciniomycotina - aka Rusts and Allies