Fungi

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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 the Tree of Life Web Project
Fungi placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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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