Endogonales

Endogonales is an order of fungi within the phylum of Zygomycota.[1] It contains 2 families, Endogonaceae, with four genera and 27 species and Densosporaceae, with one genera and 5 species.

Endogonales
The fungus Endogone pisiformus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Mucoromycota
Subdivision: Mucoromycotina
Moreau ex R.K. Benj
Order: Endogonales
Paol.
Families
  • Endogonaceae
  • Densosporaceae

Genera

Endogonaceae;[2]

  • Endogone
  • Jimgerdemannia
  • Jimwhitea†
  • Peridiospora
  • Sclerogone
  • Youngiomyces

Densosporaceae;[3]

  • Densospora (Species: D. nanospora – D. nuda – D. solicarpa – D. tubiformis)

Life cycle

The life cycle of the Endogonales is distinguished by their production of small sporocarps containing many zygospores, which are eaten by rodents and distributed by their faeces.

They also produce a fetid odour that attracts mammals and encourages them to eat their fruiting bodies, and so spread their spores.[4]

Food

Like all fungi, they are heterotrophs with some being described as saprobes (with weak evidence).[4]

References
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  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. "Family Names". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  3. "Family Names". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  4. 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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