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The general morphological details concerning the wood rotting non gilled agaricomycetes are discussed under the sections macromorphology and micromorphology. In the section concerning macromorphology, the vegetative and asexual stages, the general nature and type of the fructification, architecture of the fructification, is discussed. The micromorphology deals with the hyphae, covering various aspects like introduction of the hyphal system, type of hyphae and their spatial arrangement along with their role in the taxonomy of agaricomycetes. Besides the type of basidia, basidiospores and sterile structures (cystidia and their types) are discussed along with setae.
Morphological details of these fungi are studied with a naked eye or with a hand lens (macromorphology) which is primarily done before the study of different features with the help of microscope (micromorphology). The macromorphological studies help in the identification to a certain level only, whereas study of micromorphology is the only way to identify the genera and species correctly and exactly.
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Prasher, I.B. (2015). Morphology. In: Wood-rotting non-gilled Agaricomycetes of Himalayas. Fungal Diversity Research Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9858-7_4
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