SUBPHYLUM UREDINIOMYCOTINA = TELIOMYCOTINA = PUCCINIOMYCOTINA

Biotrophic parasites of tracheophytes; with reddish-brown spore masses ( urediospores (text with tooltip) Structure in rusts that produces binucleated urideniospores. ); promycelium (text with tooltip) Short hypha that germinates from teleopores of rust, on which basidiospores develop. from teliospores (text with tooltip) Thick-walled spores produced by rust fungi. (borne on telia (text with tooltip) Group of cells that produce teliospores in rusts. ), triseptate, producing 4 ballistospores (text with tooltip) A spore forcefully ejected from its source. ; many with complex life histories involving 5 spore stages and 2 hosts. The rusts.

• CLASS UREDINIOMYCETES = TELIOMYCETES
  • ORDER UREDINALES
    • Coelosporium, Cronartium, Uredinopsis, Endophyllum, Gymnosporangium, Puccinia.
  • ORDER PLATYGLOEALES
    • Eocronartium, Helicobasidium.
  • ORDER ATTRACTIELLALES
    • Phleogena.
  • ORDER SEPTOBASIDIALES
    • Septobasidium.
  • ORDER EXOBASIDIALES
    • Exobasidium.

SUBPHYLUM USTILAGOMYCOTINA

Parasitic on angiosperms; with dusty, black spore masses ( chlamydospores (text with tooltip) Thick-walled resting spore. ); promycelium (text with tooltip) Short hypha that germinates from teleopores of rust, on which basidiospores develop. from chlamydospore, producing large, indefinite number of spores, often by budding. “Smuts.”

• CLASS USTILAGOMYCETES
  • ORDER USTILAGINALES
    • Anthracoidea, Schizonella, Ustilago.
  • ORDER TILLETIALES
    • Entorrhiza, Schroeteria, Urocystis.

SUBPHYLUM BASIDIOMYCOTINA =AGARICOMYCOTINA

Basidia exposed at maturity, arranged in palisade-like hymenium (text with tooltip) Spore-bearing layer of cells, which contain asci, found in certain fungi. ; basidiospores (text with tooltip) Sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium. typically ballistospores, asymmetrically poised on their stalks. “Mushrooms, toadstools, bracket fungi, polypores, fairy clubs and jelly fungi.” This is a large and diverse subphylum of 2 classes and 27 orders.

• CLASS HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES =TREMELLOMYCETES
• Basidiocarps gelatinous or waxy; basidium a phragmobasidium (text with tooltip) A basidium that is divided into more than one cell by transverse or longitudinal septa. , divided by septa; basidiospores often germinate by repetition (i.e., producing secondary spores. The class has 5 orders.
• ORDER CERATOBASIDIALES
  • Ceratobasidium, Sebacinella.
• ORDER TULLASNELLALES
  • Tulasnella.
• ORDER DACRYOMYCETALES
  • Calocera, Dacryomyces.
• ORDER AURICULARIALES
  • Basidiocarps gelatinous to rubbery, drying to cartilaginous texture; basidia more or less cylindrical, with 1-3 (usually 3) transverse septa.
  • Auricularia, Basidiodendron, Exidiopsis, Aporpium, Sebacina, Tremellodendropsis..
• ORDER TREMELLALES
  • Basidiocarps gelatinous, waxy or fleshy, often brightly colored, drying to cartilaginous texture; basidia cruciately septate (text with tooltip) In the form of a cross. , usually longitudinally divided into 4.
  • Tremella, Carcinomyces, Syzygospora, Filobasidium.

• CLASS HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES = HOLOBASIDIOMYCETES = HYMENOMYCETES = AGARICOMYCETES
• Basidium a holobasidium (text with tooltip) Made of a single cell, more or less club-shaped, with sterigmata that are fairly small relative to the basidium. ; single, cylindrical cell, undivided by septa, typically bearing 4 spores on stalks at apex.
  • ORDER GOMPHALES
    • Gomphus, Araeocoryne, Austrogautieria, Ceratellopsis, Delentaria, Destuntzia, Gauteria, Gloeocanthearellus, Phaeoclavulina, Protogauteria, Pseudogomphus, Ramaria, Ramaricium, Terenodon, Turbinellus.
    • Beenakia, Clavariadelphus.
    • Lentaria, Hydnocristella, Kavinia.
  • ORDER PHALLALES
    • Basidiocarp initially more or less globose, egg-like and buried (hypogeal); wall ( peridium (text with tooltip) Outer wall of a fruiting body. ) of outer and inner papery layers with gelatinous material between; central part with compressed spongy or tubular tissue (receptacle) in addition to gleba; when peridium ruptures, receptacle expands carrying gleba (text with tooltip) Spore-bearing tissue in peridium of sporophore. out of the “egg”; then gleba is reduced to a dark, often putrid-smelling slime, in which spores are suspended. “Stinkhorns.”
    • Clathrus, Hysterangium, Phallus.
  • ORDER GEASTRALES
    • The earthstars. Their basidiocarps resemble puffballs. The peridium is made of two layers, the outermost of which splits and opens in a star-like pattern.
    • Geastrum, Geasteroides, Myriostoma, Nidulariopsis, Phialastrum, Radiigera, Schenella, Sphaerobolus.
  • ORDER CANTHARELLALES
    • Coral fungi and the chanterelles. Basidia exposed on the surface or on very shallow ridges.
    • Clavaria, Multiclavula, Clavulinum, Cantharellus, Hydnum.
  • ORDER BOTRYOBASIDIALES
    • Botryobasidium, Gloeophyllum.
  • ORDER HERICIALES
    • Auriscalpium, Clavicorona, Lentinellus, Hericium.
  • ORDER GLOEOCYSTIDIALES
    • Gloeocystidiellum, Aleurodiscus, Stereum, Peniophora, Scytinostroma, Heterobasidion, Russula.
  • ORDER HYPHODERMATALES
    • Basidioradulum, Hyphoderma, Cystosterium, Hyphodontia, Hyphodontiella, Irpex, Steccherinum.
  • ORDER HYMENOCHAETALES
    • Coltricia, Inonotus, Phellinus, Trichaptum.
  • ORDER PHAEOLALES
    • Laetiporus, Phaeolus, Antrodia, Sparassis.
  • ORDER FOMITOPSIDALES
    • Common shelf fungi. Basidia borne in tubes on the undersides of the basidiocarps.
    • Daedalea, Fomitopsis, Trametes, Fomes, Polyporus, Ganoderma, Lentinus.
  • ORDER BJERKANDERALES
    • Bjerkandera, Phanerochaete, Ceriporia, Phlebia, Meripilus, Panus, Albatrellus.
  • ORDER LACHNOCLADIALES
    • Oxyporus.
  • ORDER THELEPHORALES
    • Hydnellum, Thelephora.
  • ORDER BOLETALES
    • The boletes. They produce their basidia in pores or tubes on the underside of a fleshy cap.
    • Boletus, Boletinus, Paxillus, Scleroderma.
  • ORDER TRICHOLOMATALES
    • The order includes the basidiomycetous lichenized fungi.
    • Armillaria, Arrhenia, Clitocybe, Gerronema, Hygrocybe, Mycena, Omphalina, Rickenella.
  • ORDER CORTINARIALES
    • Basidiocarps develop from a vulva. Basidia borne on gills (text with tooltip) One of the radial spore bearing lamellae on the underside of toadstools and mushrooms. .
    • Cortinarius, Hymenogaster, Pluteus, Amanita.
  • ORDER STROPHARIALES
    • Stropharia, Panellus, Typhula.
  • ORDER POLYPORALES
    • Phyllotopsis, Pleurotus.
  • ORDER SCHIZOPHYLLALES
    • Schizophyllum, Fistulina.
  • ORDER AGARICALES
    • Basidia borne on gills (common agaric mushrooms) or inside a peridium that undergoes autodigestion (common puffballs).
    • Agaricus, Amanita, Lepiota, Coprinus, Calvatia, Lycoperdon, Tulostoma.
  • ORDER NIDULARIALES
    • Basidiocarps globose or funnel-shaped, up to 1 cm in diameter, gregarious; peridium with 1 to many layers, dehiscing irregularly, by stellate apical splitting or by circumscissile epiphragm; remains of the peridium form a cup (nest) containing peridola (text with tooltip) Capsules of spores enclosed within the cup-shaped peridium of bird's nest fungi. (eggs). “Bird’s nest fungi.”
    • Crucibulum, Cyathus, Nidularia, Sphaerobolus.