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Endogonales



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.

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.

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).

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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