Question

Are Brackets basidiomycetes fungi?

Answer 1

Basidiomycetes:

1. Basidiomycota is a large and diverse phylum of fungi (kingdom Fungi)
2. Basidiomycetes include jelly and shelf fungi, mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, yeasts, and rusts and smuts.
3. Basidiomycota is filamentous fungi made up of hyphae.
4. The majority of species reproduce sexually, with a club-shaped spore-bearing organ (basidium) that typically produces four sexual spores (basidiospores).
5. Brackets are a group of fungi that form large fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside.
6. They are basidiomycetes.
7. They produce woody conks a shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies that are occasionally circular.