Endogonales
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Endogonales is an order of fungi within the class of Zygomycota. It contains only one family, Endogonaceae, with four genera.
[edit] Life cycle
Distinguished by their production of small sporocarps containing many zygospores, which are eaten by rodents and distributed by their feces.
They also produce a fetid odor that attracts mammals and encourages them to eat their fruiting bodies, and so spread their spores.
[edit] Food
Like all fungi, they are heterotrophs with some being described as saprobes (with weak evidence), while others are ectomycorrhizal (are the only members of the Zygomycota to do so).
[edit] References
- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et. al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
