Authors
Scott T. Bates CIRES Visiting Fellow, Fierer Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Leif Ryvarden Mycologist, Department of Biology University of Oslo, Norway.
Xavier Arturo Scholarship Student in Mycology, Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Mushrooms: Gill fungi, pore fungi, stinkhorns, coral fungi, puffballs, bird's nests, jelly fungi, rusts & smuts
Pycnoporus sanguineus. Humid highlands, San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos
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Basidiomycetes are fungi that reproduce by forming spores via specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia.
Well known macro-fungi (mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, jelly fungi, boletes, and chanterelles) belong to this group of organisms, other less known basidiomycetes are smuts and rusts.
Very few basidiomycetes form lichens.
This checklist of known basidiomycetes from the Galapagos Islands is currently based on the sparse literature records available and a few recent field surveys on the central island of Santa Cruz. These few records are by no means comprehensive and it is estimated that the current list represents less than 80% of the diversity of Galapagos Basidiomycota.
Authors: Scott T. Bates, Leif Ryvarden, Xavier Arturo.
Other Contributors: Franklin Arboleda, Paul Cannon, Paul Gamboa.
Names of taxa included: 85 total (34 accepted, 21 unidentified taxon, 9 doubtful, 21 preliminary identification).
Origin of the taxa included: 3 accidental, 2 cultivated, 1 endemic, 6 indigenous.
Basidiomycota Species Checklist
Domain Eukaryota
Kingdom Fungi
Division Basidiomycota
Class Agaricomycetes
Order Agaricales
Order Auriculariales
Order Boletales
Order Corticiales
Order Geastrales
Order Gomphales
Order Hymenochaetales
Order Polyporales
Order Russulales
Class Dacrymycetes
Order Dacrymycetales
Class Dothideomycetes
Order Pleosporales
Class Exobasidiomycetes
Order Exobasidiales
Class Pucciniomycetes
Order Pucciniales
Class Tremellomycetes
Order Auriculariales
Order Tremellales
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