The Agaricostilbomycetes are a
class of
fungi in the subdivision
Pucciniomycotina of the
Basidiomycota. The class consists of a single
order, six
families, and 15
genera.[2][3][4] Its
type genus, Agaricostilbum was originally placed in Ascomycota, and later, Agaricomycotina, before being placed in Pucinniomycotina.
Most species are known only from their yeast states. Where known,
basidiocarps (fruitbodies) are typically small and stilboid (pin-shaped).[1][4] They tend to by mycoparasitic (parasitise other fungi) or saprobic. Their
spindle pole bodies (fungal organelles that are functionally equivalent to centrosomes) are multi-layered and disc-shaped. They can have phragmo- or holo-basidia and they have tremelloid
haustoria. The septal pores, have microbodies, which may resemble Woronin bodies of the Ascomycota.[5]
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