Agaricomycetes
| Agaricomycetes | |
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| Amanita muscaria (Agaricales) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Subkingdom: | Dikarya |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Subdivision: | Agaricomycotina |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes Doweld (2001)[1] |
| Subclasses/Orders | |
incertae sedis (no subclass)
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Agaricomycetes is a class of fungi. The taxon is roughly identical to that defined for the Homobasidiomycetes (alternatively called holobasidiomycetes) by Hibbett & Thorn,[2] with the inclusion of Auriculariales and Sebacinales. It includes not only mushroom-forming fungi, but also most species placed in the deprecated taxa Gasteromycetes and Homobasidiomycetes.[3] Within the subdivision Agaricomycotina, which already excludes the smut and rust fungi, the Agaricomycetes can be further defined by the exclusion of the classes Tremellomycetes and Dacrymycetes, which are generally considered to be jelly fungi. However, a few former "jelly fungi", such as Auricularia, are classified in the Agaricomycetes. According to a 2008 estimate, Agaricomycetes include 17 orders, 100 families, 1147 genera, and about 21000 species.[4] Modern molecular phylogenetic analyses have been since used to help define several new orders in the Agaricomycetes: Amylocorticiales, Jaapiales,[5] and Stereopsidales.[6]
Classification
Although morphology of the mushroom or fruit body (basidiocarp) was the basis of early classification of the Agaricomycetes,[7] this is no longer the case. As an example, the distinction between the Gasteromycetes (including puffballs) and Agaricomycetes (most other agaric mushrooms) is no longer recognized as a natural one—various puffball species have apparently evolved independently from agaricomycete fungi. However, most mushroom guide books still group the puffballs or gasteroid forms separate from other mushrooms because the older Friesian classification is still convenient for categorizing fruit body forms. Similarly, modern classifications divide the gasteroid order Lycoperdales between Agaricales and Phallales.
Features
All members of the class produce basidiocarps and these range in size from tiny cups a few millimeters across to a giant polypore (Phellinus ellipsoideus) greater than several meters across and weighing up to 500 kilograms (1,100 lb).[8] The group also includes what are arguably the largest and oldest individual organisms on earth: the mycelium of Armillaria gallica have been estimated to extend over 150,000 square metres (37 acres) with a mass of 10,000 kg (22,000 lb) and an age of 1,500 years.[9]
Ecology
Nearly all species are terrestrial (a few are aquatic), occurring in a wide range of environments where most function as decayers, especially of wood. However, some species are pathogenic or parasitic, and yet others are symbiotic (i.e., mutualistic), these including the important ectomycorrhizal symbionts of forest trees. General discussions on the forms and life cycles of these fungi are developed in the article on mushrooms, in the treatments of the various orders (links in table at right), and in individual species accounts.
Genera incertae sedis
There are many genera in the Agaricomycetes have not been classified in any order or family. These include:
- Akenomyces
- Aldridgea
- Anixia
- Arrasia
- Arthrodochium
- Arualis
- Atraporiella
- Cenangiomyces
- Ceraceopsis
- Corticomyces
- Cruciger
- Dendrosporomyces
- Ellula
- Fibulochlamys
- Fibulocoela
- Fibulotaeniella
- Geotrichopsis
- Gloeoradulum
- Gloeosynnema
- Glomerulomyces
- Glutinoagger
- Grandinia
- Granulocystis
- Hallenbergia
- Hyphobasidiofera
- Hypolyssus
- Intextomyces
- Korupella
- Minostroscyta
- Mylittopsis
- Myriococcum
- Odonticium
- Pagidospora
- Peniophorella
- Phlyctibasidium
- Pseudasterodon
- Pycnovellomyces
- Riessia
- Riessiella
- Taiwanoporia
- Timgrovea
- Titaeella
- Trechinothus
- Tricladiomyces
- Trimitiella
- Tubulicrinopsis
- Xanthoporus
- Xenosoma
References
- ↑ Doweld A. (2001). Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum, Tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta) [An attempted system of the vascular plants]. Moscow, Russia: GEOS. pp. 1–111. ISBN 5-89118-283-1.
- ↑ Hibbett DS, Thorn RG. (2001). McLaughlin DJ (eds) et al., eds. The Mycota, Vol. VII. Part B., Systematics and Evolution. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. pp. 121–168.
- ↑ Hibbett DS et al. (2007). "A higher level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycological Research 111 (5): 509–547. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004. PMID 17572334.
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- ↑ Binder M, Larsson KH, Matheny PB, Hibbett DS. (2010). "Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: Early diverging clades of Agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid forms". Mycologia 102 (4): 865–880. doi:10.3852/09-288. PMID 20648753.
- ↑ Sjökvist E, Pfeil BE, Larsson E, Larsson K-H. (2014). "Stereopsidales – a new order of mushroom-forming fungi". PLoS ONE 9 (8): e106204. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095227.
- ↑ Fries EM. (1874). Hymenomycetes Europaei (in Latin). Uppsala: Typis Descripsit Ed. Berling. p. 1.
- ↑ Cui B-K, Dai Y-C. (2011). "Fomitiporia ellipsoidea has the largest fruiting body among the fungi". Fungal Biology 115 (9): 813–814. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.008. PMID 21872178.
- ↑ Smith M, Bruhn JH, Anderson JB. (1992). "The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms". Nature 356 (6368): 428–431. doi:10.1038/356428a0.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agaricomycetes. |
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Data related to Agaricomycetes at Wikispecies - Tree of Life Agaricomycetes by David S. Hibbett
- Overview of the Basidiomycota from Aarhus University, Denmark
- Evolution & Morphology in the Homobasidiomycetes