CLASS PHYCOMYCETES ASCOMYCETES BASISIOMYCETES DEUTEROMYCETES

Other Name Algal Fungi Sac Fungi Club/ Bracket Fungi Imperfect Fungi
Habitat and Aquatic, Decaying wood/ organic Saprophytic, Decomposers, Parasitic, Coprophilous Soil, on logs, tree stumps Saprophytic, Parasitic,
Habit matter, in moist, damp places Parasitic Decomposers
Obligate parasites on Plants
Mycelium Aseptate, Coenocytic Branched, Septate Branched, Septate Branched, Septate
Asexual Zoospores (motile), Conidia Absent Conidia
Reproduction Aplanospores (non-motile) But Vegetative Reproduction by
Production of Endogenously in Sporangia Exogenously on conidiophores fragmentation is common Exogenously on
spores → conidiophores
Sexual NOT KNOWN
Reproduction:
Spores → Zygospore (formed by fusion of Ascospores Basidiospores
two gametes) – Can be
isogamous, anisogamous or
oogamous
Produced on Endogenously on Asci Exogenously on Basidia
Fruiting Bodies Ascocarps (Different types) Basidiocarps
Other points Sex Organs are absent but
plasmogamy is brought by fusion
of two vegetative or somatic cells
of different strains/ genotypes.
Dikaryon Phase Absent Present Present Absent
Examples Mucor, Rhizopus (Bread Mould), Penicillium (Antibiotic Source), Yeast Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Alternaria,
Albugo (Mustard parasite) (Saccharomyces - Unicellular) Puffballs Colletotrichum,
Parasitic - Hypomyces, Chrysospermus Agaricus (mushroom) Trichophyton,
Coprophilous (on dung) –Sporomiella Parasitic - Rusts, Smuts Trichoderma,
Aspergillus, Claviceps , Ustilago (Smut), Puccinia Tricosporium
Neurospora (used in biochemical and genetic work) (Wheat rust fungus)
Edible (Delicacies) - Morels, Truffles
NCERT
Diagram

MUCOR ASPERGILLUS AGARICUS