Taphrinomycotina
| Taphrinomycotina | |
|---|---|
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| Peach tree (Prunus persica) attacked by Taphrina deformans | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Subdivision: | Taphrinomycotina O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997[1] |
| Classes | |
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Neolectomycetes Pneumocystidomycetes Schizosaccharomycetes Taphrinomycetes | |
The Taphrinomycotina are one of three subdivisions constituting the
molecular studies suggest that the group is monophyletic and basal to the rest of the Ascomycota.[2][3]
The major taxa are
Pneumocystis
.
The Schizosaccharomycetes are the yeasts (e.g. Schizosaccharomyces) that reproduce by fission rather than budding, unlike most other yeasts, many of which are in the subdivision Saccharomycotina.
The
ascomata
.
The
ascomata (fruiting bodies), and which specifically grow out of root tips. They may have a yeast state (ascospores bud in the asci). [citation needed
]
The
Pneumocystidomycetes also encompasses only one genus of yeasts, Pneumocystis, one of which causes Pneumocystis pneumonia
in humans by developing cysts on the lung tissue.
None has ascogenous hyphae giving rise to the asci.