Dothideomycetidae is a subclass of
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1300 genera and over 19,000 known species. Traditionally, most of its members were included in the loculoascomycetes, which is not pa ...
consisting of three
orders
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...
:
Dothideales
Dothideales are an order of bitunicate fungi consisting mainly of saprobic or plant parasitic species.
Description
Taxa in this order are characterized by the absence of a hamathecium (defined as hyphae or other tissues between asci) in a loc ...
,
Myriangiales
Myriangiales is an order of sac fungi
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of ...
and
Capnodiales. The cavities of the
sexual structures do not have vertical cells (
paraphyses
Paraphyses are erect sterile filament-like support structures occurring among the reproductive apparatuses of fungi, ferns, bryophytes and some thallophytes. The singular form of the word is paraphysis.
In certain fungi, they are part of the fe ...
,