GASTEROMYCETES: a common name

basidia not labeled exhibit orthotrophy

Features: ortotrophic spore attachment; no forceful spore discharge.

Classification system

order characteristics

order	basidiome	hymenium	peridium	gleba	spores
LYCOPERDALES	epigeous	present	1-3-layered	powdery	brown
SCLERODERMATALES	epigeous	absent	1-3-layered	powdery	purple
NIDULARIALES	epigeous	absent	1-layered	peridioles	white
PHALLALES	epigeous	present	1-layered	slimy	dark
PODAXALES	epigeous stipitate	present	1-layered	powdery	brown
TULOSTOMATALES	epigeous stipitate	absent	1-layered	powdery	brown
GAUTERIALES	hypogeous	present	1-layered	cartilaginous	brown to dark
HYMENOGASTRALES	hypogeous	present	1-layered	fleshy	brown to dark
MELANOGASTRALES	hypogeous	absent	1-layered	fleshy	brown to dark

classification for Basidiomycotina

rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina