Orders of Gasteromycetes:

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

GAUTERIALES: basidiome hypogeous; hymenium present;peridium 1-layered, often lacking at maturity; gleba cartilaginous, traversed by branched columella; spores brown to dark

Gautieria sp.; note chambered gleba with hymenium and branched columella.

HYMENOGASTRALES: basidium hypogeous; hymenium present; peridium 1-layered; gleba fleshy and often with a columella; spores brown to dark

Rhizopogon Truncolumella (next two):

MELANOGASTRALES: basidiome hypogeous; hymenium absent; peridium 1-layered; gleba fleshy; spores brown to dark

Melanogaster sp.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina