Gasteroid fungi include puffballs, stinkhorns, and other forms that produce their spores inside the fruiting body. Gasteroid taxa comprise about 8.4% of the Agaricomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi) and have evolved numerous times from nongasteroid ancestors, such as gilled mushrooms, polypores, and coral fungi, which produce spores on the surface of the fruiting body. Nongasteroid Agaricomycetes...

ABSTRACT The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical in world, with high biodiversity of organisms. Despite increasing knowledge about fungal diversity last few years, many taxa, including gasteroid clades, are still poorly known. Gasteroid fungi recognized by maturation basidiospores inside basidiomata and passive release spores. We conducted a detailed survey published data on species that ...

ABSTRACT Based on the available literature, a list of 40 gasteroid species recorded in Paraguay since earliest known collection is presented. A total forty are reported, distributed among 16 genera and 4 families. This work represents first compilation data this group fungi for Paraguay. These numbers reveal scarce amount formally cited Paraguayan Funga.

Abstract Calvatia is a genus of gasteroid fungi, comprising about 47 species worldwide. In this paper we report the second worldwide occurrence two poorly known Calvatia, recorded in Cerrado biome Brazil: C. oblongispora and nodulata. Detailed morphological descriptions illustrations, including scanning electron micrographs hyphae basidiospores are provided, as well discussion on their taxonomy...

The Family Russulaceae comprises of some important agaricoid and gasteroid taxa of Agaricomycetes. Two genera, Lactarius and Russula are distinctive basidiomycetes that possesses heteromerous tissue composed of sphaerocyte cells and amyloid ornamentation on their basidiospores. Some of the important ectomycorrhizal, edible, poisonous and medicinal species have been rested in genera Lactarius an...

Introduction The genus Calostoma comprises a morphologically unusual group of gasteroid fungi (puffballs). The genus name, "beautiful mouth", aptly describes this genus, which forms a brightly colored raised opening at its apex, from which it releases its spores (FIG 1a-b). The genus has been placed in multiple fungal groups including its own family, the Calostomataceae. Recent molecular studie...

The systematic position of secotioid (Torrendia) and gasteroid (Amarrendia) forms within the agaricoid Amanita lineage (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) was studied with molecular (nLSU, ITS) data. Secotioid and gasteroid forms occur in four independent clades nested within agaricoid forms. One clade corresponds to the secotioid T. pulchella from southern Europe and northern Africa. The others corres...