Nidulariacae

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Bird's nest fungi

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Gasteromycetes
Order: Nidulariales
Genus

Nidulariaceae
Sphaerobolaceae


Nidulariales
mycological characteristics:
 
smooth hymenium
 

cap is infundibuliform

 

hymenium attachment is not applicable

 

lacks a stipe

 

spore print is brown

 

ecology is saprophytic

 

edibility: inedible


Bird's nest fungi are fungi with fruiting bodies that look like egg-filled birds' nests and make up the order the Nidulariales. The "eggs" are spore cases called peridioles. Peridioles contain glebal tissue with basidia and are dispersed by rain.


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