Without the involvement of meiosis, asexual spores (mitospores) are produced following mitosis. Asexual spores produced by fungi come in a wide variety. Some species are capable of producing a variation of these spores. For instance, F. oxysporum produces thick-walled chlamydospores, smaller microconidia, and macroconidia shaped like bananas.
Conidia and sporangiospores are the two primary asexual spore types produced by fungi. They can be separated from one another by the mechanisms that lead to their formation and by the morphology of the sporophore that creates them.
Asexual spores include arthrospores, conidia, chlamydospores, and sporangiospores.
Sporangiospores are asexual spores that develop inside a sporangium with a wall. Sporangiospores include the motile zoospores of chytrids released into water from their zoosporangia and spores of zygomycetes exposed to the air by splitting the adult sporangial wall. Conidia (singular conidium) are asexual spores formed on conidiophores.
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