Question

What are the five types of basidiomycetes?

Answer 1

Basidiomycetes:

1. Basidiomycetes are distinguished by the production of sexual spores, known as basidiospores (usually four), on the outside of a specialized, microscopic spore-producing structure known as the basidium.
2. Basidiospores are haploid, but when they mature, they can be uninucleate or multinucleate.
3. Five types of basidiomycetes are:
   1. Mushrooms
   2. Puffballs
   3. Rusts
   4. Smuts
   5. Jelly fungi.