Orders of Gasteromycetes:

Gautieriales, Hymenogastrales, Lycoperdales, Melanogastrales, Nidulariales, Phallales, Podaxales Sclerodermatales, Tulostomatales,

LYCOPERDALES: : basidiomes epigeous; hymenium present; peridium 1-3-layered; gleba powdery; spores brown

• Lycoperdaceae: peridium 1-layered; in Lycoperdon, spores are released through a pore in the top of the peridium; In Bovista and Calvatia, the peridium ruptures irregularly and the spores are dispersed by wind
• Lycoperdon Bovista Calvatia
• Geastraceae: (earth stars) three layered peridium; in Geastrum the spores are released as in Lycoperdon.
  • Geastrum e nodperium in ground; mesoperdium (brown); endoperidium (on top) surrounds the powdery gleba

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina