What are "imperfect" fungi?
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Erin Albrecht
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Any fungus that has no known meiotic or sexual state is placed in the deuteromycetes group for convenience. · "deuteromycetes" or Fungi Imperfecti, have no known sexual state in their life cycle. · Most of these have affinities to Ascomycota · When the teleomorph is discovered, the technically correct name for the fungus is that of the teleomorph. · Around 1680 genera and 17,000 species classifed here. · The large majority of these fungi are terrestrial, and are either saprobes or parasites of plants; relatively few are parasites of animals Some characteristics used in identification of deuteromycetes: · The most common method of asexual reproduction in fungi is by means of spores, a general term for dissemination and resting structures in fungi. · Fungal spores exhibit a wide variability in coloration, surface sculpturing, size, shape, number of cells, cellular arrangement, and the manner in which they are borne on the mycelium. · All, or most, of these features are used for identification of genera and species.
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