Basidiomycetes - the mushrooms
Contain common mushrooms, puffballs, and rusts (plant pathogen)
“mushroom” is only reproductive part (basidiocarp)
Basidiocarp: dikaryotic, heterokaroytic (secondary) mycelium
Hyphae with elaborate pores (lacking in young primary mycelium)
High dispersal: one basido-carp can produce 40 million sporesper hour
basidiospores are released from apical end of the basidium