Dacrymycetales basidium (Figure 16-7, B); complex septal pore with cap (handout Figure 5.13); basidiocarp typically smaller than in Tremellales; Dacrymyces, Guepiniopsis, Calocera

Ceratobasidiales: crust like gels; basidium Figure 16-7 C); Tulasnella, Rhizoctonia.

DacrymycesLEFT AND MIDDLE: tuning fork holobasidum showing epibasidia.

CaloceraGuepiniopsis


classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina