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| The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland |
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing deciduous propagules, each comprising a tetrad of cells with thick walls, this developing from the probasidium and circumventing development of basidium and basidiospores.
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer. The hyphae with dolipore septa.
Ecology. Parasitic; on other fungi.
Representation in Britain and Ireland. 1 species in Britain; Tetragoniomyces.
World representation. 1 species; genera 1. North America.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Tremellomycetidae; Tremellales.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019. delta-intkey.com’.