Pucciniomycetes

Pear rust ( Gymnosporangium fuscum )

The Pucciniomycetes are a class of Mushroom Fungi ( Basidiomycota ). Among them are the rust fungi ( Pucciniales ). Most members are parasites of plants, animals and fungi.

Characteristics and lifestyle

Almost all representatives are parasites and form Phragmobasidien and teliospores. Only Pachnocybe ferruginea is a Saprobiont and forms Holobasidien, and Platygloea disciformis may be a Saprobiont. The Helicobasidiales the dikaryophase can to parasitize plant roots ( Helicobasidium ), while the haploid phase of rust fungi parasitized ( Tuberculina ).

All representatives form hyphae only in Septobasidium there are also yeast -like growth forms.

System

Within the Pucciniomycotina the Pucciniomycetes are the basalste group, and thus the sister group to all other representatives of the Department. The Pucciniomycetes include five orders:

  • Septobasidiales
  • Pachnocybales, only representative Pachnocybe ferruginea
  • Helicobasidiales
  • Platygloeales
  • Rust fungi ( Pucciniales )

The Pucciniomycetes meet the Urediomcycetidae, as the group is known by many editors.

Documents

  • M. C. Aime et al.: An overview of the higher level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined Analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences. Mycologia, Volume 98, 2006, pp. 896-905.
  • Robert Bauer, Dominik Begerow, José Paulo Sampaio, Michael White, Franz Winkler Upper: The simple- septate basidiomycetes: a synopsis. Mycological Progress, Volume 5, 2006, pp. 41-66, ISSN 1617 - 416x, doi: 10.1007/s11557-006-0502-0.
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