Families in the Aphyllophorales:

Auriscalpiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavariaceae, Corticiaceae, Echinodontiaceae, Fistulinaceae, Ganodermataceae, Gomphaceae, Hericiaceae, Hydnaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Schizophyllaceae, Sparassidaceae; Stereaceae, Thelephoraceae

• Sparassidaceae: basidiome stalked and branched into wavy lobes with hymenium on underside, monomitic; spores colorless, inamyloid. Sparassis crispa. The fruiting bodies develop from a hypogeous sclerotial mass.

• Fistulinaceae: basidiocarp fleshy; hymenophore of crowded tubes which are free, i. e., not fused laterally; spores hyaline. Fistulina hepatica is lignicolous on dead hardwood debris; separate tubes on left; top of fruiting body on right.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina