Phylum: Ascomycota e
| Description: Very large and diverse subdivision. Includes: truffles, morels, little cup fungi, and a broad range of plant and animal diesease causing fungi. Higher fungus included are mainly restricted to 2 classes: Discomycetes and Pyrenomycetes.
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Phylum: Basidiomycota e
| Identification: Produce spores from various, usually club shaped, microscopic structures known as basidia.
Description: This subdivision contains nearly all the woody fungi and nearly all the large fleshy fungi. It includes all but a few of the known edible and poisonous mushrooms. It includes: gilled mushrooms, boletes, puffballs, jelly fungi, chanterelles, corals, tooth fungi, polypores, and crust fungi.
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