Pronunciation key ( fun′jī ) |
fun•gi
n.
[L. fungosus spongy < a mushroom, fungus; altered after fungus].
Alternative plural of fungus.
"Eucaryotic unicellular or multinucleate organisms in which the nuclei occur in a basically continuous mycelium; this mycelium becomes septate in certain groups and at certain stages of the life cycle. They are heterotrophic, with nutrition by absorption. Reproductive cycles often include both sexual and asexual phases. All are provisionally included in a single phylum, Mycota. There are some 100,000 valid species of fungi to which names have been given, but at least twice this many more probably await discovery, and many of the described ones will be eventually found to have been named two or more times; this is particularly so for fungi that may be classified both as ascomycetes and as members of the Fungi Imperfecti."
Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971
| Taxonomic Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Fungi – champignons, Fungo, fungi |
| Direct Children: | |
| Division | Ascomycota – sac fungi |
| Division | Basidiomycota – basidiomycetes, club fungi |
| Division | Deuteromycotina |
| Division | Myxomycota – slime molds |
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