| Species of the former mating system are called heterothallic, and of the latter homothallic. |
| However, there are also self-fertile homothallic species which form mushrooms without mating to another strain and produce basidiospores which are genetically identical to the parental strain. |
| This type of life cycle is designated as secondary homothallic. |
| All isolates were homothallic and produced various numbers of dark blue perithecia containing a number of asci on carrot medium. |
| The fungus is homothallic and only one strain is needed for oospore production. |
