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	A cup fungus. Chapter Outline Description of Fungi Classification of Fungi Miscellaneous Fungi Ascomycota Basidiomycota Lichens Sources Links to external sites will appear in pop-up windows.			The phylum Ascomycota contains three subphyla, which are the subheadings on this page. Saccharomyceta Pezizomycotina Saccharomycotina Taphrinomycotina Resources: Saccharomyces Genome Database - Stanford U. PEZIZOMYCOTINA   Text CLASS PEZIZOMYCETES ORDER PEZIZALES FAMILY SARCOSCYPHACEAE Cup Fungus (Cookeina sp.) - Peru - NOAH FAMILY HELVELLACEAE White Morel (Morchella americana) - Kansas FAMILY SARCOSOMATACEAE Devil's Urn (Urnula craterium) - 6 (Onondaga) CLASS ORBILIOMYCETES leotiomyceta CLASS CANDELARIOMYCETES CLASS CONIOCYBOMYCETES CLASS EUROTIOMYCETES SUBCLASS EUROTIOMYCETIDAE ORDER EUROTIALES FAMILY ASPERGILLACEAE Bread Mold Aspergillus spp. - CDC - Aspergillosis ORDER ONYGENALES FAMILY AJELLOMYCETACEAE Blastomyces dermatitidis - CDC - Blastomycosis Histoplasma capsulatum - CDC - Histoplasmosis (lung infection) FAMILY ONYGENACEAE Coccidioides sp. - CDC - Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) FAMILY ARTHRODERMATACEAE Microsporum, Trichophyton, or Epidermophyton - CDC - Ringworm/Athletes Foot CLASS LECANOROMYCETES OSLEUM clade SUBCLASS LECANOROMYCETIDAE ORDER LECANORALES SUBORDER LECANORINEAE FAMILY CLADONIACEAE Pixie Cup Lichen (Cladonia) - 1 (Yellowstone), 3 (Adirondacks) Gray Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia rangiferina) - 3 (Adirondacks) FAMILY PARMELIACEAE Wolf Lichen (Letharia) - 1 (Yellowstone) Beard Lichen (Usnea) - Nambe Lake, NM Witch's Hair (Alectoria sarmentosa) [Lichen] Black-Foam Lichen (Anzia colpodes) [Lichen] - Great Smoky Mountains ORDER PELTIGERALES SUBORDER PELTIGERINEAE FAMILY PELTIGERACEAE Pelt Lichen (Peltigera) - Nambe Lake, NM ORDER RHIZOCARPALES FAMILY RHIZOCARPACEAE Map Lichen (Rhizocarpon) - 6 (Tundra in RMNP) CLASS LICHINOMYCETES CLASS SAREOMYCETES CLASS XYLONOMYCETES CLASS GEOGLOSSOMYCETES ORDER GEOGLOSSALES FAMILY GEOGLOSSACEAE Hairy Earth Tongue (Trichoglossum) - 3 (Adirondacks) SORDARIOMYCETA CLASS LABOULBENIOMYCETES CLASS LEOTIOMYCETES ORDER ERYSIPHALES Powdery Mildew - Pomona Lake, KS ORDER HELOTIALES Orange Earth Tongue (Microglossum rufum) - 3 (Adirondacks) CLASS SORDARIOMYCETES Fusarium spp. - CDC - Fungal Keratitis Sporothrix schenckii - CDC - Sporotrichosis DOTHIDEOMYCETA CLASS ARTHONIOMYCETES CLASS DOTHIDEOMYCETES Exserohilum sp. - CDC - Soil and plants, occasionally human infection Cladosporium sp. - CDC - Allergies and asthma Resources: SACCHAROMYCOTINA   Text CLASS SACCHAROMYCETES Bakers' and Brewers' Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) - WIK - Used to make bread, beer, etc. Candida spp. - CDC - Candidiasis (yeast infection, vaginal and/or thrush, oral) Resources: TAPHRINOMYCOTINA   Text CLASS ARCHAEORHIZOMYCETES CLASS NEOLECTOMYCETES Neolecta irregularis CLASS PNEUMOCYSTIDOMYCETES Pneumocystis jirovecii - CDC - Pneumocystis pneumonia CLASS SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETES CLASS TAPHRINOMYCETES Birch Besom (Taphrina betulina) Resources: [ Previous Page ] [ Next Page ]