gasteromycetes

Class Gasteromycetes

(puff balls,earthstars,bird's nest fugi,stinkhorns)

characteristics: -basidia form basidospores inside the specialized interior tissue(gleba) of the basidioma, usually not in easily reconizable hymenia except in eary development stages -basidia usually club shaped and non septate - basidiospores are not shot forcibly from the sterigmata -