Examples from the Fungi Kingdom

The living beings are classified into five kingdoms to facilitate the study and understanding of the relationships that exist between them as well as the particular characteristics of each one.

This classification is made from more general groups to more specific groups, starting with the kingdoms, then the phyla or division, the class, the order, the family, the genus and the species.

In other words, each kingdom includes a huge variety of organisms that have some characteristics in common.
The kingdoms are:

Characteristics of the Fungi Kingdom

At our daily lifeWe can find mushrooms in the form of food (in a variety of dairy products, beer, or by themselves), or as part of medicinal compounds. There are also contaminating fungi, such as those that rot wood, and parasitic fungi that cause disease in the human body. In addition, in various cultures mushrooms are used for their hallucinogenic properties.

Examples of Fungi Kingdom

1. Fly swatter (Amanita muscaria). Division: basidiomycetes. Order: Agaricales. Mushroom that temporarily paralyzes
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   insects who come into contact with it. It measures between 10 and 20 centimeters. It is red with white dots. It is found in different habitats, but mainly woods, as it grows associated with the roots of various trees. It is a hallucinogenic mushroom.
2. Amethyst Lacaria (laccaria amethystea). Division: basidiomycetes. Class: Homobasidiomycetes. Order: Tricholomatales. Mushroom that has a hat up to 5 cm in diameter. It has a striking violet color. It appears in mossy and humid areas of forests.
3. Star mushroom (aseroë rubra). Division: basidiomycetes. Class: agaricomycetes. Order: Phallales. Mushroom recognizable by its unpleasant smell, which attracts flies, and by its starry shape. Its stem is white and its arms are red. It can reach 10 centimeters. Each of its arms (between 6 and 9) measures 33 millimeters.
4. Devil's cigar (chorioactis geaster). Division: ascomycetes. Class: pezizomycetes. Order. Pezizales. Star-shaped mushroom, tan in color. Its peculiarity is that it produces a sound when opening to release its spores. They grow on dead cedar or oak roots. It is found only in the United States and Japan.
5. Beer yeast (Saccharomyces cervisiae). Division: ascomycetes. Class: Hemiascomycetes. Order: Saccharomycetales. Fungus unicellular. A type of yeast used in the making of bread, beer, and wine. It reproduces in a asexual by budding. Under certain conditions it is capable of reproducing sexually.
6. Penicillium Roqueforti. Division: ascomycotic. Class: eurotiomycetes. Order: Eurtiales. It is used in the manufacture of a wide variety of cheeses, including blue cheeses (Roqueforte, Cabrales, Valdeón, etc.)
7. Pine mushroom (suillus luteus). Division: basidiomycetes. Class: homobasidiomycetes. Order: boletales. It can measure 10 cm in diameter. Dark brown in color and viscous surface. It is found in pine forests. It is an edible mushroom.
8. Dermatophyte fungus (epidermophyton floccosum). Division: ascomycotic. Class: eurotiomycetes. Order: onygenales. Fungus that causes skin infections such as ringworm, athlete's foot, and onychomycosis. It is spread by contact. It grows in colonies.
9. Crepidotus. Division: Basidiomycetes. Order: Agaricales. Fan-shaped saprophytic fungi. Of colors between whitish and brown. It grows in temperate climates.
10. Penicillium chrysogenum. Division: ascomycotic. Class: Eurothiomycetes. Order: eurotiales. It is the fungus that produces penicillin (antibiotic that allowed to treat diseases that were considered incurable).

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Classification in the fungi kingdom

The Fungi kingdom is subdivided as follows: