| Leotiomyceta | |
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| Leotia viscosa found in West Lebanon, New Hampshire | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| (unranked): | Saccharomyceta |
| Subdivision: | Pezizomycotina |
| (unranked): | Leotiomyceta O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997 |
| Unranked taxa and classes | |
Leotiomyceta represents all the filamentous ascomycete fungi (Pezizomycotina), excluding the classes Pezizomycetes and Orbiliomycetes. It is well supported in several studies comparing DNA sequences in fungi. It has originally been proposed as a superclass but later was proposed as a rankless taxon for any well supported group above class (together with Saccharomyceta, Dothideomyceta, and Sordariomyceta). Rankless taxa do not strictly follow the rules for taxonomic classifications in plants and fungi (ICBN) and therefore these names are informal, although they appear to reflect natural groups.
References
- James, Timothy Y.; et al. (2006). "Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny". Nature. 443 (7113): 818–822. Bibcode:2006Natur.443..818J. doi:10.1038/nature05110. PMID 17051209. S2CID 4302864.
- Spatafora, J. W.; et al. (2006). "A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina". Mycologia. 98 (6): 1018–1028. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.1018. PMID 17486977.
- Eriksson OE, Winka K, 1997. Supraordinal taxa of Ascomycota. Myconet 1, 1–16.
- Schoch, C.L.; Wang, Z.; Townsend, J.P.; Spatafora, J.W. (2009). "Geoglossomycetes cl. Nov., Geoglossales ord. Nov. and taxa above class rank in the Ascomycota Tree of Life". Persoonia – Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 22: 129–138. doi:10.3767/003158509x461486. PMC 2776753. PMID 19915689.
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| Rozellomyceta |
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| See also: fungi imperfecti (polyphyletic group). | |||||||||
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Leotiomyceta | |
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