Fungi [Fungi, Mycota, Mycophyta. Mycetalia]

Fungi [Fungi, Mycota, Mycophyta. Mycetalia]

1. a group (empire) of heterotrophic organisms reproducing by spores, looking like web or cotton wool formations, farinose scurf, spots, etc., composed from thin branchy threads — hyphas. F. include about 80-100 thousand species.