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ASCOMYCOTA Whittaker, 1959 (spore-shooters)

Lab. techniques

Except for a handful of larger species, microscopic examination is always required to identify ascomycetes. Staining is often necessary to make hyaline tissues and spores visible - the question is what stain to use: as a rule of thumb: if it has asci, use Melzer's Iodine; other hyaline structures can be stained with Congo Red. Anamorphic fungi generally stain well in Cotton Blue, although dematiacous hyphomycetes often need no staining.

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Aggregate	Anamorphic fungi (mitosporic fungi)			3	1	3
Class	ASCOMYCETES G. Winter, 1881 (spore shooters)	3659	1748	1921	2398	250	13240
Anamorphic Species	Bispora antennata (Pers.) E.W. Mason, 1953 (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)		1				13
Species	Burenia inundata (an ascomycete)						1
Division	EUASCOMYCETES (unitunicate ascomycetes)					1
Genus	Intralichen D. Hawksw. & M.S. Cole (a genus of lichenicolous fungi)	2
Species	Intralichen christiansenii (D. Hawksw.) D. Hawksw. & M.S. Cole, 2002 (a lichenicolous ascomycete)						7
Species	Intralichen lichenicola (a lichenicolous fungus)						1
Species	Phragmonaevia hysterioides (Desm.) Rehm, 1888 (a discomycete)						4
Class	SACCHAROMYCETES G. Winter, 1881 (a fungus)	1
Subclass	SACCHAROMYCETIDAE Tehler, 1988 (a fungus)	1				1
Class	TAPHRINOMYCETES O.E. Erikss. & Winka, 1997 (a fungus)	23
Subclass	TAPHRINOMYCETIDAE Tehler, 1988 (a fungus)	23	24	19	10	5	53
Informal	(Discomycetes) (Discomycete Fungi)	877	465	563	899	79	2524
Informal	(Lichenes) (Lichens)	496	680	456	133	42	858

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Swedish Fungi: http://swefungi.se/swindex.html	Web Site/Page
Breitenbach J., & Kränzlin F., 1984	Ascomycetes
Cannon, P.F., Hawksworth, D.L., & Sherwood-Pike, M.A., 1985	The British Ascomycotina, an Annotated Checklist
Dennis, R.W.G., 1978	British Ascomycetes
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Ellis, M.B., 1971 (Anamorphic forms)	Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
Ellis, M.B., 1976 (Anamorphic forms)	More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
Hansen, L & Knudsen, H, 2000	Nordic Macromycetes, Vol 1 (Ascomycetes)
Ingold, C.T., 1975 (Aquatic anamorphic forms)	Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes
Laessoe, T. & Peteren, J.H., 2007	Mycokey
Checklist of Larger Ascomycetes from Klodzko Land (Poland): http://wwkk.mikologia.pl/index.php	Web Site/Page
Phillips, R., 1981 (A good selection of the larger common species)	Mushrooms & other Fungi of Great Britain & Europe
Phillips, R., 2006 (A good selection of the larger common species)	Mushrooms
Richardson, M.J. & Watling, R., 1997	Keys to Fungi on Dung
Seifert, K., Kendrick, B. & Murase, G., 1983 (Anamorphic forms)	A key to Hyphomycetes on dung
von Arx, J.A. & Müller, E., translated by Butterfill, G.B., 1969	Keys to the genera of Amerospored and Didymospored Pyrenomycetes

General Works

Hawksworth, D.L., 2003 (Lichenicolous species)	The Lichenicolous Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland: an Overview and Annotated Checklist
Spooner, B., 2002	Update on Roger Phillips' Mushrooms and other fungi of Gt. Britain & Europe, part 5: Ascomycetes

ASCOMYCOTA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with ASCOMYCOTA:

Ascomycota may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

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