Multiple choice

The species of which among the following fungal orders produces gelatinous basidiocarps on dead wood?

  1. Agaricales

  2. Sebacinales

  3. Auriculariales

  4. Dacrymycetes

  5. Tremellales
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The majority of species within the Auriculariales produce gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on dead wood. In some these are conspicuous and may be ear-shaped, button-shaped, lobed, or effused. Their hymenophores (spore-bearing surfaces) may be smooth, warted, veined, toothed (as in the genus Pseudohydnum), or poroid (as in the genera Elmerina and Protomerulius).

Keep practicing — related questions