Eurotiomycetes

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Eurotiomycetes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi Division: Ascomycota Subdivision: Pezizomycotina Class: Eurotiomycetes
Orders
Arachnomycetales Ascosphaeriales Elaphomycales Eurotiales Onygenales

Eurotiomycetes are a class of ascomycetes within the Pezizomycotina clade.

Some members eurotiomycetes were previously grouped in the class Plectomycetes.

[edit] Nomenclature

The scientific classification for this particular class is particularly tricky, with one particular species having both the anamorph, and teleomorph names used in reference to them.

• e.g. Anamorph Form= Penicillium; Teleomorph Form= Talaromyces Eupenicillium

[edit] Morphology

• Produce a cleistothecium through which they distribute their spores.

[edit] External links

• Class Eurotiomycetes