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A group of thallophytic plant like organisms of low organization destitute of chlorophyll in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores which are produced in a great variety of ways though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes or so called algal fungi They include the molds mildews rusts smuts mushrooms toadstools puff balls and the allies of each In the two kingdom classification system they were classed with the plants but in the modern five kingdom classification they are not classed as plants but are classed in their own separate kingdom fungi which includes the phyla Zygomycota including simple fungi such as bread molds Ascomycota including the yeasts Basidiomycota including the mushrooms smuts and rusts and Deuteromycota the fungi imperfecti Some of the forms such as the yeasts appear as single celled microorganisms but all of the fungi are are eukaryotic thus distinguishing them from the prokaryotic microorganisms of the kingdon ...
Basidiomycota
A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium It embraces those fungi best known to the public such as mushrooms toadstools etc Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are Gasteromycetes puffballs Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales smuts and Uredinales rusts and Hymenomycetes mushrooms toadstools agarics bracket fungi...
Eumycota
a division consisting of the true fungi eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms distinguished from the Myxomycota funguslike slime molds It comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina Zygomycotina Ascomycotina Basidiomycotina Deuteromycotina imperfect fungi...
Fungus
Any one of the Fungi a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization the molds mildews rusts smuts mushrooms toadstools puff balls and the allies of each See fungi...
VerbarOiumldium
A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit etc Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera among them the vine mildew Oiumldium Tuckeri which has caused much injury to grapes...
Phycomycetes
A large important class of parasitic or saprophytic fungi the algal or algalike fungi The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well developed and much branched mycelium Reproduction is mainly sexual by the formation of conidia or sporangia but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms...
fungible
fungible [New Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi to perform] : being something (as money or a commodity) one part or quantity of which can be substituted for another of equal value in paying a debt or settling an account [oil, wheat, and lumber are commodities] n : something that is fungible ...
basidiomycete
any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota...
Basidiomycetes
a phylum of fungi with the Basidiomycota...
Basidium
A special oblong or pyriform cell with slender branches which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes of which the common mushroom is an example...
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