Pleosporomycetidae 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 par ...
consisting of four
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 d ...
:
Pleosporales,
Hysteriales
The Hysteriales are an order (biology), order of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes, subclass Pleosporomycetidae. It consists of a single family (biology), family, Hysteriaceae. Members of Hysteriales produce elongated, often boat shaped sexual s ...
,
Mytilinidiales
Mytilinidiales is an order of fungi within the class 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 ...
, and
Jahnulales
The Jahnulales are an order of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes, subclass Pleosporomycetidae. They are ascomycetes that have stalked/stessile and dimorphic ascomata, hyphal stalk cells that are about 40 μm
The micrometre ( inter ...
. One of its defining features is the presence of