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Encyclopedia > Geastraceae
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Earthstars

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Homobasidiomycetes
Order: Phallales
Family: Geastraceae
Genera
  • Astraeus
  • Colomyces
  • Geaster
  • Geastrum
  • Myriostoma
  • Sphaerobolus

and about 2 others Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 162 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Geastraceae Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Deuteromycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. ... Classes Subdivision Teliomycotina    Urediniomycetes Subdivision Ustilaginomycotina    Ustilaginomycetes Subdivision Hymenomycotina    Homobasidiomycetes- mushrooms    Heterobasidiomycetes- jelly fungi The Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. ... former Orders Subclass Homobasidiomycetidae    Agaricales    Boletales    Cantharellales    Corticiales    Ganodermatales    Gomphales    Hericiales    Hydnales    Hymenochaetales    Polyporales (Aphyllophorales)    Poriales    Russulales    Schizophyllales    Stereales    Thelephorales Subclass Gasteromycetidae    Lycoperdales    Nidulariales    Phallales    Sclerodermatales    Tulostomatales The Class Homobasidiomycetes is a taxonomic division in the Subdivision Hymenomycotina of the Division Basidiomycota (in the Kingdom Fungi). ... Elegant Stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...

The earthstars are the family Geastraceae of gasterocarpic basidiomycetes (mushrooms). It includes the genera Geastrum and Myriostoma. About 60 species are classified in this family, divided among 8 genera. An agaricoid puffball, Podaxis pistillaris, the False Shaggy Mane Lycoperdon perlatum Puffballs are fungi, they consist of a polyphyletic assemblage of Basidiomycota with gasterothecia (gasteroid basidiocarps) in which the spores are produced internally; that is, the basidiocarp remains closed, or opens only after the spores have been released from the... Classes Subdivision Teliomycotina    Urediniomycetes Subdivision Ustilaginomycotina    Ustilaginomycetes Subdivision Hymenomycotina    Homobasidiomycetes- mushrooms    Heterobasidiomycetes- jelly fungi The Division Basidiomycota is a large taxon within the Kingdom Fungi that includes those species that produce spores in a club-shaped structure called a basidium. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ...


Older classifications place this family in the order Lycoperdales, but more recently they have been placed in Phallales. Families Broomeiaceae Geastraceae Lycoperdaceae Mesophelliaceae Mycenastraceae The Lycoperdales are an order of fungi. ... Elegant Stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans. ...


One member of this family, Sphaerobolus stellatus, is a nuisance organism in landscapes known as "shotgun fungus" or "cannonball fungus", which colonizes wood-based mulches and may throw black spore-containing globs onto nearby painted surfaces. In agriculture and gardening, mulch is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate. ...

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