SAC FUNGI 





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blue and green 

 mold, colored, 

 no fine dark 

 specks, with 

 irregular shaped 

 darker areas 



wax fungus, soft to 

 waxy, colorful, on 

 plants and insects 



carbon, leather, and wood ft 



dark to black when mature, mostly saprophytic 



but also plant and animal parasites 



tongue fungus, black, fan fungus, fleshy 

 tongueto club shape, to leathery and 

 fleshy, saprophytic yellowish 



bell fungus, cap saddle fungus, sponge fungus or 



usually brown, fleshy, colored morel, fleshy, 



smooth to lined, or not, cap smooth dirty white to 



fleshy, to brain-like, dark brown, 



saprophytic saprophytic saprophytic 



asexua I 

 spores 



spore 

 producer 



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brain fungus, like some 

 saddle fungi but cap 

 always one mass, cap 

 brain-like (not pitted 

 or sponge-like), 

 saprophytic 



cup fungi, fleshy to 

 waxy or semiwoody, 

 saucer to cup to 

 goblet like, white to 

 black or colorful, 

 saprophytic or 

 parasitic 



vegetative 

 stage 



sexual ; 



spores ^ 



Vfruiting 

 body 



meiosis 



sex 



organs 



V ^parthenogenesis 



gametes 



zygote' 



> 



sexual 



' hyphae 



Figure 8.12 Conspicuous sac fungi, about natural size. 



resting spore> 

 or sporangium 



Figure 8.13 Generalized life cycle of the sac fungi. 



