Endogonales

Taxobox | name = Endogonales


regnum = Fungi
divisio = Zygomycota
classis = Zygomycetes
ordo = Endogonales
familia = Endogonaceae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision ="Endogone"
"Peridiospora"
"Sclerogone"
"Youngiomyces"

Endogonales is an order of fungi within the class of Zygomycota. It contains only one family, Endogonaceae, with four genera.

Life cycle

Distinguished by their production of small sporocarps containing many zygospores, which are eaten by rodents and distributed by their feces.

They also produce a fetid odor that attracts mammals and encourages them to eat their fruiting bodies, and so spread their spores.

Food

Like all fungi, they are heterotrophs with some being described as saprobes (with weak evidence), while others are ectomycorrhizal (are the only members of the Zygomycota to do so).

References

*C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., "Introductory Mycology, 4^th ed." (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5