Agaricostilbomycetes

Agaricostilbomycetes
Phragmidium bulbosum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Subdivision:	Pucciniomycotina
Class:	Agaricostilbomycetes R.Bauer, Begerow, J.P.Samp., M.Weiss & Ober. (2006) [1]
Orders
Agaricostilbales

The Agaricostilbomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota. The class consists of a single order, six families, and 15 genera. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Its type genus, Agaricostilbum was originally placed in Ascomycota, and later, Agaricomycotina, before being placed in Pucinniomycotina.

Most species are known only from their yeast states. Where known, basidiocarps (fruitbodies) are typically small and stilboid (pin-shaped). ^{[1] [4]} They tend to by mycoparasitic (parasitise other fungi) or saprobic. Their spindle pole bodies (fungal organelles that are functionally equivalent to centrosomes) are multi-layered and disc-shaped. They can have phragmo- or holo-basidia and they have tremelloid haustoria. The septal pores, have microbodies, which may resemble Woronin bodies of the Ascomycota. ^[5]

References

1. Bauer R, Begerow D, Sampaio JP, Weiss M, Oberwinkler F (2006). "The simple-septate basidiomycetes: A synopsis". Mycological Progress. 5 (1): 41–66. doi:10.1007/s11557-006-0502-0. S2CID   26613287.
2. Wang Q, Yurkov AM, Göker M, Lumbsch HT, Leavitt SD, Groenewald M, Theelen B, Liu X, Boekhout T, Bai F (2016). "Phylogenetic classification of yeasts and related taxa within Pucciniomycotina". Studies in Mycology. 81: 149–189. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.002. PMC   4777780 . PMID   26951631.
3. Li A, Yuan F, Groenewald M, Bensch K, Yurkov AM, Li K, Han P, Guo L, Aime MC, Sampaio JP, Jindamorakot S, Turchetti B, Inacio J, Fungsin B, Wang Q, Bai F (2020). "Diversity and phylogeny of basidiomycetous yeasts from plant leaves and soil: Proposal of two new orders, three new families, eight new genera and one hundred and seven new species". Studies in Mycology. 96: 17–140. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.002. PMC   7082220 . PMID   32206137.
4. Diederich P, Millanes AM, Etayo J, van den Boom P, Wedin M (2022). "Finding the needle in the haystack: a revision of Crittendenia, a surprisingly diverse lichenicolous genus of Agaricostilbomycetes, Pucciniomycotina". The Bryologist. 125 (2): 248–293. doi: 10.1639/0007-2745-125.2.248 . S2CID   248077585.
5. Aime, M. Catherine; Toome, Merje; McLaughlin, David J. (2014), McLaughlin, David J.; Spatafora, Joseph W. (eds.), "10 Pucciniomycotina", Systematics and Evolution, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 271–294, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55318-9_10, ISBN   978-3-642-55317-2 , retrieved 2024-02-04