Homobasidiomycetes
Amanita muscaria (Agaricales)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Subdivision: Hymenomycotina Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Orders
Agaricales Boletales Cantharellales Gomphales Hymenochaetales Phallales Polyporales Russulales Thelephorales Agaricales (Amanita muscaria) Source: German Wikipedia DE:Bild:Fliegenpilz. ... Binomial name Amanita muscaria (Linnaeus) Hook. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Deuteromycota The fungi (singular fungus) are a kingdom of eukaryotic organisms. ... Classes Subdivision Teliomycotina Urediniomycetes Subdivision Ustilaginomycotina Ustilaginomycetes Subdivision Hymenomycotina Homobasidiomycetes- mushrooms Heterobasidiomycetes- jelly fungi The Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. ... Classes Homobasidiomycetes - mushrooms Heterobasidiomycetes - jelly fungi The Subdivision Hymenomycotina (Hymenomycetes) is one of three taxa of the fungal Division Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia). ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Families Boletaceae Coniophoraceae Gomphidiaceae Melanogastraceae Gomphidiaceae Gyroporaceae Paxillaceae Sclerodermataceae Strobilomycetaceae Boletes, the best known members of the order Boletales are mushrooms characterized by holding their spores in a spongy mass of vertical tubes (pores) on the underside of the mushroom, instead of on gills (as are found in agarics). ... Families Aphelariaceae Botryobasidiaceae Cantharellaceae Clavulinaceae Hydnaceae The order Cantharellales is a group of fungi that includes the chanterelles, the tooth fungi, and some club fungi. ... Elegant Stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans. ... Families . . Polyporales (earlier known as Aphyllophorales) are important decomposers of wood. ... This article or section should be merged with Agaricales Families Auriscalpiaceae Corticiaceae Hericiaceae Meruliaceae Rusulaceae Stereaceae Russulales is an order of agarics (Basidiomycota, Fungi). ...

The class Homobasidiomycetes is a taxonomic division in the subdivision Hymenomycotina of the division Basidiomycota (in the Kingdom Fungi). Included here are the so-called "true" mushrooms and a common name for this group of some 16,000 described species is the mushroom-forming fungi (53% of the described basidiomycetes). Classes Homobasidiomycetes - mushrooms Heterobasidiomycetes - jelly fungi The Subdivision Hymenomycotina (Hymenomycetes) is one of three taxa of the fungal Division Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia). ... Classes Subdivision Teliomycotina Urediniomycetes Subdivision Ustilaginomycotina Ustilaginomycetes Subdivision Hymenomycotina Homobasidiomycetes- mushrooms Heterobasidiomycetes- jelly fungi The Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Deuteromycota The fungi (singular fungus) are a kingdom of eukaryotic organisms. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ...

Although morphology of the mushroom or fruiting body was the basis of early classification of the Homobasidiomycetes^[1], this is no longer the case. As an example, the division between the gasteromycetes (puffballs) and homobasidiomycetes (most other mushrooms) is no longer recognized as a natural one—various puffball species have apparently evolved independently from hymenomycete fungi. However, most mushroom guide books still group the puffballs or gasteroid forms separate from other mushrooms because the older Friesian classification is still convenient for categorizing fruiting body forms. Similarly, modern classifications divide the gasteroid order Lycoperdales between Agaricales and Phallales. An agaricoid puffball, Podaxis pistillaris, the False Shaggy Mane Puffball emitting spores A puffball is a member of any of a number of groups of fungus in the division Basidiomycota. ... Drawn image of Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (August 15, 1794 – February 8, 1878) was a Swedish botanist born at Femsjö in Smalandia. ... Families Broomeiaceae Geastraceae Lycoperdaceae Mesophelliaceae Mycenastraceae The Lycoperdales are an order of fungi. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Elegant Stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans. ...

All members of the Class Homobasidiomycetes produce basidiocarps and these range in size from tiny cups a few millimeters across to giant polypores greater than a meter across and weighing up to 130 kg (286 lb). The group also includes what are arguably the largest and oldest individual organisms on earth: the mycelium of Armillaria gallica have been estimated to extend over 150,000 square metres (37 acres) with a mass of 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) and an age of 1,500 years (Smith et al., 1997). Mushroom In fungi, the fruiting body (also known as sporocarp) is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. ... Genera Polyporus . ... Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae that exists below the ground or within another substrate. ...

Nearly all species are terrestrial (a few are aquatic), occurring in a wide range of environments where most function as decayers, especially of wood. However, some species are pathogenic or parasitic, and yet others are symbiotic, these including the important ectomycorrhizal symbionts of forest trees. General discussions on the forms and life cycles of these fungi are developed in the article on mushrooms, in the treatments of the various orders (links in table at right), and in individual species accounts. A mycorrhiza (typically seen in the plural forms mycorrhizae or mycorrhizas, Greek for fungus roots) is the result of a mutualistic association between a fungus and a plant. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

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References and external links

• Homobasidiomycetes at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Overview of the Basidiomycota from Aarhus University, Denmark
• Smith, M., Bruhn, J., and Anderson, J. 1992. The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356:428-431.
• Evolution & Morphology in the Homobasidiomycetes