How to Classify Basidiomycetes?

Traditionally, the Basidiomycota were divided into two classes, now obsolete:
  1. Homobasidiomycetes (alternatively called holobasidiomycetes), including true mushrooms.
  2. Heterobasidiomycetes, including the jelly, rust and smut fungi.

What are characteristics of basidiomycota?

Basidiomycetes characteristics
  • These are filamentous fungi made up of hyphae only except for basidiomycota-yeast.
  • They are reproduced sexually with the formation of club-shaped end cells known as basidia which usually carry external meiospores (usually four).
  • These specific spores are termed as basidiospores.

What are five types of Basidiomycetes?

Basidiomycetes include mushrooms, puffballs, rusts, smuts and jelly fungi.

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