Fungi

See also: fungi, fungí, and fungi-

Translingual

Etymology

Latin fungus (“mushroom”)

Proper noun

Fungi

A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – mushrooms and funguses, over 100,000 species of organisms that are similar to plants but do not contain chlorophyll.

Hyponyms

(kingdom): Dikarya, Eomycota - subkingdoms[1]
- Ascomycota, Basidiomycota; Chytridiomycota, Glomeromycota, Zygomycota - phyla[1]

Coordinate terms

(kingdoms): Animalia, Plantae, Protozoa, Chromista - kingdoms in Eukaryota[1]

References

Fungi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Fungi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Fungi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Fungi at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Fungi at Encyclopedia of Life
Fungi at the Tree of Life Web Project
Fungi placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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