Basidiomycota taxonomy Hymenomycetes

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Basidiomycota taxonomyHymenomycetes

• What are the most striking primary traits?
• What does the fruiting body look like?
• Where is the hymenium or fertile surface?
• Where does it occur?
• What is it doing?

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Gross morphology (Arora, p.52)

• Mushroom
• Shelf fungi
• Club fungi
• Coral fungi
• Crust fungi
• Gasteromycetes
• Jelly fungi

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Mushroom

• Stipitate (furnished with stipe)
• with gills, pores, or teeth

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Mushroom with gills

• Russula

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Mushroom with pores
boletes

• Pulveroboletus

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Mushroom with teeth

• Hydnum

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Shelf fungi

• Laterally attached to substrate
• with gills, pores, or teeth

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Shelf fungi with gills

• Pleurotus

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Shelf fungi with pores
Fomitopsis
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Club fungi

• Hymenium with indistinct gills or ridges

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Club

• Clavariadelphus Gomphus

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Coral fungi

• Single to many fertile branches

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Coral

• Ramaria

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Crust fungi

• Resupinate
• lying flat on substrate without
• a stalk or well-defined cap

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Crust fungi

• Phanerochaete

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Gasteromycetes

• stomach fungus
• Fertile surface ( gleba) not exposed to air

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Gasteromycetes Puffball

• Lycoperdon

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Gasteromycetes Earth star

• Geastrum

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Gasteromycetes Birds nest fungus

• Cyathus

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Gasteromycetes stinkhorn

• Phallus

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Gasteromycetes false truffle

• Hysterangium

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Jelly fungi

• Gelatinous sporocarps

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Jelly fungi

• Dacrymyces

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Sorting Exercise

• 4 groups

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Agaricales sensu Arora agarics
Russulales
Agaricales
Russula Russulaceae
Amanita Amanitaceae
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Aphyllophorales sensu Arora non-gilled
Serpula Corticiaceae
Polyporus Polyporaceae
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Gasteromycetes stomach fungi
puffball
false truffle
earth star
Hysterangium Hysterangiales
Geastrum Geastrales
Lycoperdon Agaricales
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Ascomycota

• Aleuria
• Helvella
  Tuber

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Basidia
Asci
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Habitat substrate (Arora, p.32)

• Where does the fungus occur?
• From what or on what does the fungus fruit?
• Habitat forests, clearcuts, lawns,
  timberline, snowmelt, etc.
• Substrate soil, wood, litter, living plant,
  etc.

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Agaricus
lawns
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Laccaria Leucocoprinus
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Pleurotus
fallen wood
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Strobilurus
cones
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Armillaria Phaeolus
pathogens
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Boletus
parasites
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3 major characters for families of gilled
mushrooms

• Spore color
• Gill attachment
• Veil