Eurotiomycetes

Eurotiomycetes
	Verrucaria nigrescens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
(unranked):	Dothideomyceta
Class:	Eurotiomycetes; O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997
Subclasses
	Chaetothyriomycetidae; Coryneliomycetidae; Cryptocaliciomycetidae; Eurotiomycetidae; Mycocaliciomycetidae; Sclerococcomycetidae; ?Neocladophialophora;

Eurotiomycetes is a large class of ascomycetes with cleistothecial ascocarps within the subphylum Pezizomycotina, currently containing around 3810 species according to the Catalogue of Life. It is the third largest lichenized class, with more than 1200 lichen species that are mostly bitunicate in the formation of asci. It contains most of the fungi previously known morphologically as "Plectomycetes".

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