[Wildflowers of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Fungi of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington

Chicken-of-the-Woods, Chicken Polypore: Laetiporus sulphureus

Chicken-of-the-Woods, Chicken Polypore: Laetiporus sulphureus

Unidentified Fungi of the Cascade Mountains

Chytridiomycota - Sexual and aexual spores are motile, with posterior flagella.

Zygomycota - Sexual spores are thick walled resting spores called zygospores.

Ascomycota - Spores borne internally in a sac called an ascus.

Basidiomycota - Spores borne externally on a club-shaped structure called a basidium.

Myxomycetes - Plasmodial or acellular lime molds.

Deuteromycetes - "Imperfect fungi", have no know sexual state in their life cycle.


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