Agaricomycotina

Taxobox
name = Agaricomycotina


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regnum = Fungi
subregnum = Dikarya
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Agaricomycotina
subphylum_authority = Dowell, 2001
subdivision_ranks = Classes
subdivision =
Tremellomycetes
Dacrymycetes
Agaricomycetes
The subphylum Agaricomycotina, also known as the hymenomycetes, is one of three taxa of the fungal division Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia). The Agaricomycotina contain some 20,000 species, and about 98% of these are in the class Agaricomycetes: 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, certain "yeasts", ear fungi, and others; these are gathered together as the classes Tremellomycetes and Dacrymycetes.

References

* Hibbett DS, et al. 2007. [http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/Reprints%20PDFs/Hibbett_et_al_AFTOL_class_2007.pdf A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi.] "Mycological Research" 111:509–547.

* Smith, G. M. 1955. "Cryptogamic Botany, Vol. I, Algae and Fungi", 2nd Ed. McGraw Hill Book Co., New York. 546 pp.

External links

* [http://tolweb.org/Agaricomycotina/20531 Tree of Life Agaricomycotina]
* [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Hymenomycetes&contgroup=Basidiomycota Hymenomycetes] at the [http://tolweb.org/ Tree of Life Web Project]