The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles
The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles | |
Anamorphic forms alone occurring.
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing basidia and basidiospores (or absent?). The basidia ‘modified’; retaining an apical tetrad of sessile basidiospores with no sterigmata. The basidiospores statismosporic.
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer. The hyphae with dolipore septa.
Ecology. Parasitic; on other fungi.
British representation. Filobasidium.
World representation. 5 species; genera 1. Europe, North America.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Tremellomycetidae; Filobasidiales.
Comments. Kirk et al. family description: “Basidioma absent; hyphae often with haustoria, septa with dolipores; yeast-like anamorph; mycoparasitic.”.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in the British Isles. Version: 14th February 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.