Pezizomycotina [SEP] parent taxon
Pezizomycotina
Pezizomycotina make up the majority of the Ascomycota fungi and include most lichenized fungi too. Pezizomycotina contains the filamentous ascomycetes and is a subdivision of the Ascomycota (fungi that form their spores in a sac-like "ascus"). It is more or less synonymous with the older taxon Euascomycota. These fungi reproduce by fission rather than budding and this subdivision includes almost all the ascus fungi that have fruiting bodies visible to the naked eye (exception: genus "Neolecta", which belongs to the Taphrinomycotina).
hypha is ruptured, the Woronin bodies block the pores to prevent loss of cytoplasm into the ruptured compartment. The Woronin bodies are spherical, hexagonal, or rectangular membrane bound structures with a crystalline protein matrix.
Modern classification.
There are three subphyla that are described and accepted:
- The "Pezizomycotina" are the largest subphylum and contains all ascomycetes that produce ascocarps (fruiting bodies), except for one genus, "Neolecta", in the Taphrinomycotina. It is roughly equivalent to the previous taxon, "Euascomycetes