Orders of Gasteromycetes:

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

PODAXALES: basidiome epigeous, stipitate; hymenium present; gleba powdery; spores brown. Spores are released passively by having the basal portion of the peridium wear away with age.

• Podaxis. Species are found in dry habitats (such as deserts) and the stipe has a very hard texture.
• Nivatogastrium rubigenum. Often found attached to woody debris along trails or other hard-packed soils in elevations above 3000 feet.

TULOSTOMATALES: basidiome epigeous,stipitate; hymenium absent; gleba powdery; spores brown. Species of Tulostoma illustrated is found in the sand-dunes on the Samoa Peninsula; the stipe is buried in the sand with the peridium showing above ground (note the peridum has a hole and thus spores are released as in Lycoperdon in the Lycoperdales.

classification for Basidiomycotina

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

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina