Fungi Classification - Deuteromycetes

Description:

Deuteromycetes are also called fungi imperfecti. This is an artificial class of fungi created to include all those fungi in which the sexual stage is either absent or not known. Some of the deuteromycetes are unicellular like yeast.

Deuteromycetes have members that belong to both ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.

Reproduction in deuteromycetes is only by asexual spores i.e. conidia formation. They are parasitic or saprophytic in nutrition. Many act as decomposers of litter, thus helping in mineral cycling.