Asexual spores

• In the Zygomycota, asexual spores may be delimited within a sac-like structure, a sporangium (plural -- sporangia), in which case they are called sporangiospores, borne on a sporangiophore.

• in the Ascomycota, spores may be borne at the tips or sides of hyphae, and are called conidia (sing. -- conidium), borne on a conidiophore.

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Comparison of the anamorphs of Zygomycota and Ascomycota. The great majority of Basidiomycota do not produce asexual spores, and members of the Chytridiomycota produce swimming spores (zoospores) in zoosporangia