What phylum do club fungi belong to?
1 Answer
Jul 21, 2014
Club fungi are in the phylum Basidiomycota. They include the mushrooms, puffballs, and the bracket fungi. There are about 30,000 species, of which about 4,000 are mushrooms.
They are characterized by the basidium, a swollen cell found at the tip of the hyphae. This is the distinguishing characteristic reproductive structure of the group.
