Pezizomycotina
Pezizomycotina make up the majority of the Ascomycota fungi and include most lichenized fungi too. Pezizomycotina contains the filamentous ascomycetes and is a subdivision of the Ascomycota. It is more or less synonymous with the older taxon Euascomycota. These fungi reproduce by fission rather than budding and this subdivision includes almost all the ascus fungi that have fruiting bodies visible to the naked eye.
See the taxobox for a list of the classes that make up the Pezizomycotina. The old class Loculoascomycetes has been replaced by the two classes Eurotiomycetes and Dothideomycetes. The rest of the Pezizomycotina also include the previously defined hymenial groups Discomycetes and Pyrenomycetes.
Some important groups in Pezizomycotina include: Pezizomycetes, Leotiomycetes, Laboulbeniomycetes, Sordariomycetes, Dothideomycetes.
Paleopyrenomycites from the Early Devonian Rhynie Chert is the oldest known fossil member of Pezizomycotina, although its position within this subdivision is unclear.
