Directory of Basidiomycota Resources

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Basidiomycota is a phylum in the kingdom Fungi. The characteristic reproductive body is the basidium, the truncheon-like bearer of spores. The basidia are contained in an intricate supporting structure as seen in the mushroom or puffball. Most of the familiar mushrooms and toadstools are included in this phylum, along with bracket fungi, jelly fungi, smuts and rusts.

Subcategories

• Agaricales
• Atheliales
• Auriculariales
• Boletales
• Boletus, Cep
• Bracket fungi
• Cantharellales
• Ceratobasidiales
• Chanterelles
• Cystofilobasidiales
• Dacrymycetales
• Filobasidiales
• Geastrales
• Gloeophyllales
• Gomphales
• Hymenochaetales
• Hysterangiales
• Lichens
• Mushrooms
• Phallales
• Polyporales
• Puffballs
• Russula
• Russulales
• Stinkhorn
• Techisporales
• Thelephorales
• Tilletiales
• Tremellales
• Tulasnellales
• Uredinales
• Ustilaginales

Resources in This Category

• A Gallery of Scanning Electron Micrographs

  http://www.fungi.com/photo-galleries/micrographs.html
  Paul Stamets provides a number of images of spores and basidia.

• Agaricomycotina: Jelly Fungi, Yeasts, and Mushrooms

  http://tolweb.org/Agaricomycotina/20531
  Information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this clade of the Basidiomycota including characteristics and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.

• Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles

  http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/NeoTropicalFungi/NSF/ga.asp
  Highlights research on the basidiomycetes of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Includes information on the range of habitats in this area and an illustrated species list.

• Basidiomycota

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiomycota#Classification
  Details from Wikipedia on the classification and typical life-cycle of members of this phylum.

• Basidiomycota

  http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Basidiomycota
  Information on members of this phylum from MicrobeWiki, the student-edited microbiology resource, including their description and significance, cell structure and metabolism, and ecology.

• Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi

  http://tolweb.org/Basidiomycota/
  Extensive information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this phylum including characteristics of the group and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.

• Charismatic Megafungi: The Conservation of Waxcap Grasslands

  http://users.aber.ac.uk/gwg/pdf/GriffithBW-Waxcap.pdf
  Article on the largely unseen fungi which are an important part of ancient pastures.

• Dimorphic Basidiomycetes

  http://www.crem.fct.unl.pt/dimorphic_basidiomycetes/
  Information about the systematics, ecology, and evolution of basidiomycetous fungi having a yeast stage.

• Glossary of Terms

  http://www.fungionline.org.uk/glossary.html
  A useful list of the technical terms used in the study of fungi.

• Jelly Fungi

  http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/Bot201/Basidiomycota/Jelly_Fungi.htm
  Information and photographs of jelly fungi from the three orders Tremellales, Auriculariales and Dacrymycetales.

• Jelly Fungus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_fungi
  These fungi are so named because their fruiting body appears to be the consistency of jelly. They are found in the orders Tremellales, Auriculariales, and Dacrymycetales.

• Key to Gilled Mushrooms and Polypores

  http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Taxa/KeytoKey1303.html
  Key to the species found in the Great Lakes area of North America. Includes a glossary of terms.

• Lawn Mushrooms

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCELLANEOUS/lawn.htm
  Information on a number of species of fungi that may be found growing on the lawn.

• Order Tremellales, Auriculariales, Uredinales and Ustilaginales

  http://www.mycolog.com/chapter5f.htm
  Many photographs of the rusts and smuts of the Uredinales and Ustilaginales, and a few of the jelly-like Tremellales.

• Subphylum Basidiomycotina

  http://www.mycolog.com/chapter5a.htm
  Illustrated account of the Basidiomycetes.

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