Phylum Ascomycota
[ascus fungi]
This Phylum, or Division, is also known as the ascomycetes (it was once a Class). This group includes the morels, false morels, cup fungi, various flask fungi, most lichens, yeasts, molds, and others. All of these sac fungi
have their sexual spores produced inside of a sac-shaped cell, the ascus. The phylum contains 3 subphyla and 16 classes. Classification follows Lumbsch and Huhndorf (2010).
- Taphrinomycotina (4 classes)
- Neolectomycetes (1 order)
- Pneumocystidomycetes (1 order)
- Schizosaccharomycetes (1 order)
- Taphrinomycetes (1 order)
- Saccharomycotina (1 class)
- Saccharomycetes (1 order)
- Pezizomycotina (11 classes)
- Arthoniomycetes (1 order)
- Dothideomycetes (11 orders)
- Eurotiomycetes (7 orders)
- Geoglossomycetes (1 order)
- Laboulbeniomycetes (2 orders)
- Lecanoromycetes (10 orders)
- Leotiomycetes (5 orders)
- Lichinomycetes (1 order)
- Orbiliomycetes (1 order)
- Pezizomycetes (1 order)
- Sordariomycetes (18 orders)
- Uncertain placement (3 orders and 1 family)
- Uncertain placement (many families and genera)
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Phylum Ascomycota , Biological Reviews Cambridge 73: 247 (1998). Type: none designated.
- Taxonomy
- This phylum was previously split between the ascomycetes (Ascomycotina) and the asexual deuteromycetes (Deuteromycotina).
- Description links
- Out of date: Tree of Life page for Ascomycota.
- Related links
- Hibbett, D. S., M. Blackwell, T. Y. James, J. W. Spatafora, J. W. Taylor, and R. Vilgalys. 2018. Phylogenetic taxon definitions for Fungi, Dikarya, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. IMA Fungus 9(2): 291–298. DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.02.05
- Lumbsch, H.T. & S.H. Huhndorf. 2010. Myconet Volume 14. Part One. Outline of Ascomycota—2009. Part Two. Notes on Ascomycete Systematics. Nos. 4751–5113. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences Number 1:1-64. PDF 1.13 MB
- Taxon links
- 90031 Ascomycota
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum