Lance Labarda

2BIO3
Dichotomous Key for Fungi
1. Not true fungi....................................................................2
1. True fungi..........................................................................4
2. Water molds......................................................................Saprolegnia
2.

Slime molds.......................................................................3

3.

Sporangia are tall and brown, supported

on slender stalks..............................................................Stemonitis

3. Sporangia look like heads.................................................Physarum

4. Unicellular..........................................................................Saccharomyces
4

Multicellular.......................................................................5

5. Spores are enclosed...........................................................6

5

Spores are not enclosed....................................................10

6. Spores are held in sporangium.........................................Rhizopus

6

Spores are held in ascus....................................................7

7. Apothecium ascocarp; asci are operculate......................8

7

Perithecium ascocarp; asci are inoperculate....................9

8. Dark coloured; smooth.....................................................Peziza

8

Brightly coloured; hairy.....................................................Cookeina

9. Dark, charcoal-like structure.............................................Daldinia

9

Brown, dry tough body with short, black stem...............Xylaria

10.Spores are produced in chains..........................................11

10 Spores are not produced in chains...................................12
11.Conidiophores with a swollen head..................................Aspergillus
11 Conidiophores not swollen at apex..................................Penicillium
12.Basidiocarp absent.............................................................13
12 Basidiocarp present............................................................14
13.Sex organs present.............................................................Puccinia
13 Sex organs absent...............................................................Ustilago
14.Basidiocarp gelatinous, agaric, or gametocyte.................16
14 Basidiocarp corticioid or polypore.....................................15
15.Basidiocarp polypore; fruiting body
consists of tubes.....................................................................Polyporus
15 Basidiocarp corticoid; fruting body

smooth or with spines............................................................Thelephora

16.Basidiocarp gelatinous; transversely
separated basidium.................................................................Auricularia
16 Basidiocarp agaric or gametocyte...........................................17
17.Basidiocarp agaric...................................................................19
17 Basidiocarp gametocyte..........................................................18
18.Basidiospore single-walled......................................................Polyporus
18 Basidiospore double-walled....................................................Ganoderma
19. Basidiospore is forcibly released.............................................20
19. Peridiole is the dispersal unit...................................................Cyathus
20. Pink gills.....................................................................................Volvoriella
20 Yellow gills..................................................................................Pleurotus
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.Double-walled basidiospore................................................Ganoderma
14 Single-walled basidiospore...................................................15
24.Basidiospore is the dispersal unit ......................................16
15 Peridiole is the dispersal unit...............................................Cyathus
25.Basidiospore is forcibly released.........................................17
16 Basidiopore is released due to external forces....................Lycoperdon
26.

auricularia fruitbody resupinate or pileate

thelepora fruitbody leathery, usually brown at maturuity and range in shape
from coral like tuffs to having distinct caps