Agaricomycotina
{{short description|Subdivision of fungi}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Agaricomycotina
| image =Coprinellus disseminatus.Fairy Bonnets. (8725479830).jpg
| image_caption = Coprinellus disseminatus (Agaricomycetes)
| taxon = Agaricomycotina
| authority = Doweld (2001)
| subdivision_ranks = Classes
| subdivision =
}}
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.{{cite book |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-382034-1.00001-3 |quote=The Agaricomycotina includes all of the Basidiomycota that form macroscopic fruit bodies, including mushrooms and jelly fungi, along with a variety of basidiomycete yeasts. There are three classes: Agaricomycetes, Dacrymycetes, and Tremellomycetes. |chapter=Fungal Diversity |title=The Fungi |date=2016 |last1=Money |first1=Nicholas P. |pages=1–36 |isbn=978-0-12-382034-1 }} Around 98% of the species are in the class Agaricomycetes, including all the agarics (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 classifications. Agaricomycotina contains nearly one third of all described species of fungi.{{cite journal |last1=Hibbett |first1=David S. |title=A phylogenetic overview of the Agaricomycotina |journal=Mycologia |date=November 2006 |volume=98 |issue=6 |pages=917–925 |doi=10.1080/15572536.2006.11832621 }}
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.{{cite journal |last1=Scheuer |first1=Christian |last2=Bauer |first2=Robert |last3=Lutz |first3=Matthias |last4=Stabentheiner |first4=Edith |last5=Meľnik |first5=Vadim A. |last6=Grube |first6=Martin |title=Bartheletia paradoxa is a living fossil on Ginkgo leaf litter with a unique septal structure in the Basidiomycota |journal=Mycological Research |date=November 2008 |volume=112 |issue=11 |pages=1265–1279 |doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2008.06.008 |pmid=18657613 }}
File:Amanita caesarea (16489941652).jpg|{{center|Amanita caesarea (Agaricomycetes)}}
File:Geastrum saccatum 28733618.jpg|{{center|Geastrum saccatum (Agaricomycetes)}}
File:Clathrus archeri 45492229.jpg|{{center|Clathrus archeri (Agaricomycetes)}}
File:Trametes versicolor 93075730.jpg|{{center|Trametes versicolor (Agaricomycetes)}}
File:Tremella fuciformis 74925764.jpg|{{center|Tremella fuciformis (Tremellomycetes)}}
File:Calocera viscosa (28519507173).jpg|{{center|Calocera viscosa
(Dacrymycetes)}}
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External links
{{Portal|Fungi}}
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- [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]
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