Endogonales

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Endogonales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Zygomycota
Class: Zygomycetes
Order: Endogonales
Family: Endogonaceae
Genera

Endogone
Peridiospora
Sclerogone
Youngiomyces

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
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