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FUNGI AND LICHENS
LIFE-CYCLE OF A MUSHROOM
Exoperidium Peridium (wall surrounding
spore-producing tissue) Velar scale Pileus (cap)
Endoperidium (remains of
universal veil)
Gleba Scale on
(spore-producing exoperidium
tissue found in (outer part of
this type of fungus) peridium) Gill Annulus
(site of spore
production) (ring)
Stipe
(stalk)
Underground
mycelium
MATURE SPOROPHORE
Sporophore (SPORE-BEARING STRUCTURE)
(spore-bearing
structure)
Basidium
(spore-
producing
structure) Discharged spore
SECTION OF GILL
Primary
mycelium Spore
develops
Stipe from spore
(stalk)
Underground mycelium Substratum of woodland Primary Septum Hypha
Fan-shaped (mass of hyphae) soil and leaf litter mycelia fuse (cross wall)
pileus (cap) COMMON PUFFBALL to produce
(Scleroderma citrinum) secondary
mycelium
Nucleus

SPORES GERMINATE AND
Sporophore PRODUCE MYCELIUM
(spore-bearing Immature
structure) sporophore
Pileus Mycelium
(cap)
MYCELIUM FORMS SPOROPHORE
Stipe Gill (site of
(stalk) spore production) Universal veil Pileus
Stipe
HOHENBUEHELIA PETALOIDES Sporophore (stalk) (membrane (cap)
enclosing developing
(spore-bearing sporophore) Gill
structure)
Stipe
Underground
mycelium (stalk)
SPOROPHORE GROWS
ABOVE GROUND
Substratum Expanding Partial veil
of woodland pileus (cap) (joins pileus
soil and leaf to stipe)
litter Annulus (ring)
being formed as Stipe
partial veil breaks (stalk)
Volva
Underground (remains
mycelium of
universal
veil)
FRINGED CRUMBLE CAP Hyphae UNIVERSAL VEIL
(Psathyrella candolleana) (fungal filaments) BREAKS

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