Chromista
Two groups have often been associated with fungi:-
1. Slime moulds - not really fungi
- no hyphae
- amoeboid phases
- often coenocytic - no cell walls to plasmodial stages
2. Those considered as ‘fungus-like’
- hyphae contain cellulose: store food as starch Eumycota have chitin in the walls: store glycogen)
- have motile cells bearing flagellae
- hyphae are diploid