| Basidiospore Print PDF |
| Natural Habitat | - Forest floors
- Lawns
- Plants (saprobes or pathogens depending on genus)
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| Suitable Substrates in the Indoor Environment | - Depends on genus
- Wood products
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| Water Activity | |
| Mode of Dissemination | - Forcible ejection
- Wind currents
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| Allergenic Potential | - Type I allergies (hay fever, asthma)
- Type III (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
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| Potential Opportunist or Pathogen | |
| Industrial Uses | - Edible mushrooms are used in the food industry
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| Potential Toxins Produced | - Amanitins
- monomethyl-hydrazine
- muscarine
- ibotenic acid
- psilocybin.
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| Other Comments | - Basidiospores are the result of sexual reproduction and formed on a structure called the basidium. Basidiospores belong to the members of the Phylum Basidiomycota, which includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts
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