34 Fungi and Allied Microbes

Contd..

Subclasses

1. Hemiascomycetidae 2. Euascomycetidae 3. Loculoascomycetidae 4. Laboulbeniomycetidae

Series

1. Plectomycetes 2. Hymenoascomycetes

Sub-series

1. Pyrenomycetes 2. Discomycetes

4.12 CLASSIFICATION PROPOSED BY G.C. AINSWORTH (1973)

The well-known general-purpose classification for fungi proposed by Ainsworth (1966), and followed by himself in Dic-
tionary of Fungi (1971) and also in The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise (Ainsworth, 1973), may be considered as an ideal
scheme of classification that reflects natural relationship. In this system the fungi with plasmodia or pseudoplasmodia are
classified in the division Myxomycota, whereas most of the remaining, usually filamentous fungi which do not have any
plasmodium or pseudoplasmodium, are classified in division Eumycota. John Webster (1980) also ‘chosen to adopt the
scheme proposed by Ainsworth (1973)’.
The author has also followed this scheme to discuss fungi in the present book. Its details are given on next page.

CLASSIFICATION PROPOSED BY CONSTANTINE

4.13
J. ALEXOPOULOS AND CHARLES W. MIMS (1979)

Following the suggestions of Whittaker and Margulis (1978), about the existence of Superkingdom as the largest tax-
onomic rank, Alexopoulos and Mims (1979) placed all fungi, including the slime moulds, in Kingdom Myceteae of
Superkingdom Eukaryonta. Kingdom Myceteae, as proposed by Alexopoulos and Mims (1979), includes 3 Divisions,
8 Subdivisions, 11 classes, 1 Form-Class, 3 Subclasses and 3 Form-Subclasses. Their proposed classification of fungi is
given below in tabulated form.

Kingdom MYCETEAE (fungi, including slime moulds)

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Divisions

I. GYMNOMYCOTA II. MASTIGOMYCOTA III. AMASTIGOMYCOTA

Subdivisions Subdivisions

Acrasiogymnomycotina Plasmodiogymnomycotina Haplomastigomycotina Diplomastigomycotina

Class Classes Classes Class

Acrasiomycetes Oomycetes Subdivisions

Protosteliomycetes Myxomycetes

Subclasses 1. Chytridiomycetes
2. Hyphochytridiomycetes
3. Plasmodiophoromycetes
Contd. on page 36

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