Agaricomycotina

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Agaricomycotina

The subphylum Agaricomycotina, also known as the hymenomycetes, is one of three taxa

Taxon

A taxon or taxonomic unit is a name designating an organism or a group of organisms. In biological nomenclature according to Carl Linnaeus, a taxon is assigned a taxonomic rank and can be placed at a particular level in a systematic hierarchy reflecting evolutionary relationships....
of the fungal

Fungus

A fungus is a Eukaryote organism that is a member of the Kingdom Fungi . The fungi are a monophyletic group, also called the Eumycota , that is phylogeny distinct from the morphologically similar slime molds and water molds ....
division Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota is one of two large phylum that, together with the Ascomycota, comprise the subkingdom Dikarya within the Kingdom Fungi. More specifically the Basidiomycota include mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, cantharellus, Geastraceae, smut , common bunt, rust , mirror yeasts, and the...
(fungi bearing spores on basidia). The Agaricomycotina contain some 20,000 species, and about 98% of these are in the class Agaricomycetes

Agaricomycetes

The class Agaricomycetes includes not only mushrooms but also most species placed in the old outdated taxa Gasteromycetes and Homobasidiomycetes....
: most of the fungi known as mushrooms, including the bracket fungi and puffballs. Species in the Agaricomycotina that are not Agaricomycetes include the jelly fungi

Jelly fungi

The class Heterobasidiomycetes or jelly fungi is a paraphyletic group of several Fungi orders: Tremellales, Auriculariales, Dacrymycetales....
, certain "yeast

Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryote microorganisms classified in the Kingdom fungus, with about 1,500 species currently described; they dominate fungal diversity in the oceans....
s", ear fungi, and others; these are gathered together as the classes

Class (biology)

A class is the taxonomic rank in the biological classification of organisms in biology below phylum and above Order .The orders of taxonomy are life, Domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
Tremellomycetes

Tremellomycetes

Tremellomycetes are dimorphic fungi and some species have a gelatinous fruiting body or a sacculate parenthesome. To learn more, select a higher ranking taxon from the taxobox....
and Dacrymycetes

Dacrymycetes

Dacrymycetes is a class consisting of only one family of jelly fungi, which has imperforate parenthesomes and basidia that are usually branched. To learn more, select a higher ranking taxon from the taxobox....
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