<P> Growth forms include: </P> <Ul> <Li> jelly fungus--fruiting body is jelly - like . </Li> <Li> club fungus and coral fungus--erect fruiting body without a distinct stalk and cap, either unbranched (club fungus) or profusely branched (coral fungus). </Li> <Li> polypore--underside of the fruiting body usually consists of tubes; otherwise very variable, usually wood - inhabiting </Li> <Li> tooth fungus or hydnoid fungus - underside of the fruiting body composed of spines or teeth </Li> <Li> corticioid fungus - the underside of the fruiting body is usually smooth or with spines (vs. hydnoid fungi) but not poroid nor gilled; typically effused without caps </Li> <Li> cantharelloid fungus--fruiting body with shallow fold - like gills running over most of the lower surface of the fruiting body and not much differentiation between the stalk and cap . </Li> <Li> gasteromycete or "gastroid fungus"--fruiting body has a ball - like shape and in which the hymenophore has become entirely enclosed on the inside of the fruiting body . </Li> <Li> false truffle--like a gasteromycete, however, but with a hypogeous (underground) fruiting body . </Li> <Li> secotioid fungus--like a gasteromycete, but with a stalk . Thought to be an evolutionarily intermediate stage between a gasteromycete and an agaric . </Li> <Li> agaric or gill fungi--fruiting body with caps, gills, and (usually) a stalk . </Li> <Li> bolete--fleshy fruiting body with a cap, a stalk, and tubes on the underside . </Li> </Ul> <Li> jelly fungus--fruiting body is jelly - like . </Li> <Li> club fungus and coral fungus--erect fruiting body without a distinct stalk and cap, either unbranched (club fungus) or profusely branched (coral fungus). </Li>

How many kinds of basidiocarps are recognised in polyporus