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Pezizomycotina is a subphylum of the Ascomycota
Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 30,000 species....
 (fungi which form their spores in a sac-like ascus) and is more or less synonymous with the older taxon Euascomycota. These fungi reproduce by fission rather than budding and this subdivision includes almost all the ascus fungi which have fruiting bodies visible to the naked eye (exception: genus Neolecta
Neolecta

Neolecta is a genus of ascomycetous fungus that have fruiting bodies in the shape of unbranched to lobed bright yellowish, orangish to pale yellow-green colored, club-shaped, smooth, fleshy columns up to about 7cm tall....
 which belongs to the Taphrinomycotina
Taphrinomycotina

Taphrinomycotina is one of three subphyla constituting the Ascomycota and is more or less synonymous with the slightly older invalid name Archiascomycetes ....
).

See the taxobox for a list of the classes which make up the Pezizomycotina.






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Pezizomycotina is a subphylum of the Ascomycota
Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 30,000 species....
 (fungi which form their spores in a sac-like ascus) and is more or less synonymous with the older taxon Euascomycota. These fungi reproduce by fission rather than budding and this subdivision includes almost all the ascus fungi which have fruiting bodies visible to the naked eye (exception: genus Neolecta
Neolecta

Neolecta is a genus of ascomycetous fungus that have fruiting bodies in the shape of unbranched to lobed bright yellowish, orangish to pale yellow-green colored, club-shaped, smooth, fleshy columns up to about 7cm tall....
 which belongs to the Taphrinomycotina
Taphrinomycotina

Taphrinomycotina is one of three subphyla constituting the Ascomycota and is more or less synonymous with the slightly older invalid name Archiascomycetes ....
).

See the taxobox for a list of the classes which make up the Pezizomycotina. Note that the old class Loculoascomycetes (consisting of all the bitunicate
Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 30,000 species....
 Ascomycota) has been replaced by the two classes Chaetothyriomycetes
Chaetothyriomycetes

Chaetothyriomycetes are a class of fungi within the Ascomycetes. They are collectively termed the Black Yeasts....
 and Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes

Dothideomycetes is a class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises about 50 families, 650 genera and 6300 known species. Traditionally most of its members were included in the clade Loculoascomycetes....
. The rest of the Pezizomycotina can be called Hymenoascomycetes.

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