Fungi are a diverse group of organisms that typically share some ecological features, i.e., they have the same life style, but they have a number of evolutionary origins. They include the true fungi (Eumycota) and other fungal-like organisms (Pseudomycota).
Ascomycetes (Ascomycota)
Cup Fungi, True and False Morels, Earth Tongues, Truffles, most Lichens, and their relatives.
Basidiomycetes (Basidiomycota)
Agarics, Boletes, Chanterelles, Coral Fungi, Polypores, Teeth Fungi, Jelly Fungi, Puffballs, Earthstars, Bird's Nest Fungi, Rusts, and Smuts and their relatives.
Chytrids (Chytridiomycota)
Chytrids are aquatic, soil, and plant pathogenic fungi. They are the most primitive group of true fungi and the only group with motile spores.
Deuteromycetes (Mitosporic fungi)
This artificial group of fungi is used for asexual spore stages. The sexual states are primarily ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.
Zygomycetes (Zygomycota)
Zygomycetes are primarily terrestrial fungi and lack conspicuous fruiting bodies.
Slime Molds (Myxomycota)
Slime molds differ from most fungi in their ingestive nutrition; typical fungi absorb nutrients.
Water Molds and Other Oomycetes (Oomycota)
Aquatic and terrestrial fungi involved in plant and animal disease and decay.
Hyphochytrids (Hyphochytridiomycota)
Hyphochytrids occur in aquatic habitats and in soil and resemble chytrids.
Labyrinthulids (Labyrinthulomycota)
Labyrinthulids are fungi of marine coastal waters with a distinctive cell organization.
Plasmodiophorids (Plasmodiophoromycota)
Plasmodiophorids are parasites of plants with a distinctive feeding phase.