Orders of Gasteromycetes:

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

NIDULARIALES: basidiomes epigeous; hymenium absent; peridium 1-layered; gleba in the form of peridioles; spores white

Nidulariaceae: locate peridium, gleba which is in the form of peridioles. In Nidula (to the right), the top of the peridium (the lid) has disintegrated; the peridiles which are dark are found in the bottom of the peridium. Note the inner walls of the peridium are slanted and shiny.

. Sphaerobolaceae: the basidiocarp is composed of a six layered peridium and has only one peridiole. In Sphaerobolus stellatus (to the left), the peridiole is shiny and white. The six-layered peridium is divided in 2 three-layered portions, the inner three are orange in the picture and the outer three are light yellowish orange. The inner and outer layers are attached at the tips of the 'star'.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina