Eurotiomycetes

Eurotiomycetes
Verrucaria nigrescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
(unranked): Dothideomyceta
Class: Eurotiomycetes
O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997
Subclasses

Eurotiomycetes is a large class of ascomycetes with cleistothecial ascocarps within the subphylum Pezizomycotina,[1] currently containing around 3810 species according to the Catalogue of Life.[2] It is the third largest lichenized class, with more than 1200 lichen species that are mostly bitunicate in the formation of asci.[3] It contains most of the fungi previously known morphologically as "Plectomycetes".[4]

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  4. ^ Geiser DM, Gueidan C, et al. (2006). "Eurotiomycetes: Eurotiomycetidae and Chaetothyriomycetidae". Mycologia. 98 (6). Lawrence, KS: The Mycological Society of America: 1053–1064. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.1053. PMID 17486980.

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