Agaricomycotina is one of three subdivisions of the Basidiomycota (fungi bearing spores on basidia), and represents all of the fungi which form macroscopic fruiting bodies. Agaricomycotina contains over 30,000 species,[ divided into three classes: Tremellomycetes, Dacrymycetes, and Agaricomycetes.]
Around 98% of the species are in the class
Agaricomycetes, including all the
(gilled mushrooms),
bracket fungi,
clavarioid fungi,
corticioid fungi, and
gasteroid fungi.
Tremellomycetes contains many basidiomycete
yeasts and some conspicuous
jelly fungi.
Dacrymycetes contains a further group of jelly fungi. These
taxa are founded on molecular research, based on
cladistic analysis of
DNA sequences, and supersede earlier morphology-based
taxonomy.
[ Agaricomycotina contains nearly one third of all described species of fungi.]
The class Bartheletiomycetes contains a single anomalous species of basidiomycete which grows on fallen leaves of Ginkgo biloba. Some researchers suggest that this class should be included in Agaricomycotina.
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