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Bird's nest fungus

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Gasteromycetes
Order: Nidulariales
Genus

Nidulariaceae
Sphaerobolaceae


Nidulariales
mycological characteristics:
smooth hymenium

cap is infundibuliform

hymenium attachment is not applicable

lacks a stipe

spore print is brown

ecology is saprophytic

edibility: inedible


Bird's nest fungi are fungi with fruiting bodies that look like egg-filled birds' nests and make up the order the Nidulariales. The "eggs" are spore cases called peridioles. Peridioles contain glebal tissue with basidia and are dispersed by rain.

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