Basidiomycota Fungi Flora and Fauna

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.

• Order Tremellales, Auriculariales, Uredinales and Ustilaginales - Many photographs of the rusts and smuts of the Uredinales and Ustilaginales, and a few of the jelly-like Tremellales.
  
• Dimorphic Basidiomycetes - Information about the systematics, ecology, and evolution of basidiomycetous fungi having a yeast stage.
  
• Lawn Mushrooms - Information on a number of species of fungi that may be found growing on the lawn.
  
• Agaricomycotina: Jelly Fungi, Yeasts, and Mushrooms - Information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this clade of the Basidiomycota including characteristics and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.
  
• Basidiomycetes - A clearing house for research information about the basidiomycete fungi. Includes a list of laboratories focused on the basidiomycota, lists of basidiomycete species, conferences and other events, and an index of available genomic information.
  
• Jelly Fungus - 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.
  
• A Gallery of Scanning Electron Micrographs - Paul Stamets provides a number of images of spores and basidia.
  
• Charismatic Megafungi: The Conservation of Waxcap Grasslands - Article on the largely unseen fungi which are an important part of ancient pastures. [PDF]
  
• Springbrook Research Centre - Environmental studies and observations of bioluminescent organisms and bioluminescent fungi at the Springbrook Research Centre, Queensland, Australia.
  
• Glossary of Terms - A useful list of the technical terms used in the study of fungi.
  
• Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi - Extensive information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this phylum including characteristics of the group and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.
  
• 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.
  
• Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles - 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.
  
• An Overview of the Mushroom Life Cycle - Diagram illustrating the process by which a fungal spore can develop into an organism producing a spore-producing fruiting body.
  
• Natural Perspective: Order Agaricales - General description (with photos) of this order of mushrooms, including the Amanita, Agaricus, Russula, Tricholoma, Gomphidius, Coprinus, Waxy Cap (Hygrophoracea), and Bolete families.
  
• Mushrooms, the Hwarang and the Martial Arts - Article by Paul Stamets on the Asian martial artists who believe in the potency of various mushrooms to aid them on the path to perfection.
  
• Subphylum Basidiomycotina - Illustrated account of the Basidiomycetes.
  
• Jelly Fungi - Information and photographs of jelly fungi from the three orders Tremellales, Auriculariales and Dacrymycetales.
  
  

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