Leotiomycetes
Leotiomycetes | |
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Uncinula tulasnei
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
(unranked): | Sordariomyceta
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Class: | Leotiomycetes Eriksson & Winka (1997) |
Orders | |
Cyttariales Families incertae sedis
Genera incertae sedis |
The Leotiomycetes are a
plant diseases
.
Systematics
The class Leotiomycetes contains numerous species with an
sister taxon to Sordariomycetes in the phylogenetic tree of Pezizomycotina. Its division into subclasses have received strong support by the molecular data, but the overall monophyly
of Leotiomycetes is dubious.
The order Lichinodiales and family Lichinodiaceae, newly circumscribed in 2019 to contain the genus cyanolichen genus Lichinodium, is the first known group of lichen-forming fungi in the Leotiomycetes.[1] Family Lichinodiaceae was then placed in 2020 in the Leotiales order.[2]
More orders were added in 2020, Lahmiales, Lauriomycetales, Marthamycetales, Medeolariales, Micraspidales and Phacidiales.[2]
Characteristics
- Most Leotiomycetes grow their asci in apothecia (seldom cleistothecia). The asci are cylindrical, without operculum.
- The apical pore.
References
- hdl:10115/29252.
- ^ hdl:10481/61998.
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