The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles
The Families of Mushrooms and Toadstools Represented in the British Isles | |
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing deciduous propagules, each comprising a tetrad of cells with thick walls, this developing from the probasidium and circumventing development of basidium and basidiospores.
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. 1 species in Britain; Tetragoniomyces.
World representation. 1 species; genera 1. North America.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Tremellomycetidae; Tremellales.
To view the illustrations with captions giving names in current use, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, distributions of character states within any set of taxa, source references, and other relevant material.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in the British Isles. Version: 1st November 2012. http://delta-intkey.com’.