Bifiguratales Tedersoo, 2024

Tedersoo, Leho, Magurno, Franco, Alkahtani, Saad & Mikryukov, Vladimir, 2024, Phylogenetic classification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: new species and higher-ranking taxa in Glomeromycota and Mucoromycota (class Endogonomycetes), MycoKeys 107, pp. 249-271 : 249-271

Bifiguratales Tedersoo ord. nov.

Type family.

Bifigurataceae Tedersoo .

Description.

Covers the monophyletic group in Endogonomycetes (Fig. 2 ). Cultured mycelium filamentous, aseptate, coenocytic, 2 μm diam., mucose in appearance, commonly producing budding yeast-like cells; chlamydospores intercalary, 5–10 μm diam., forming on hyphal tips. Phylogenetically delimited by the least inclusive clade covering sequence accessions HM 123225, EUK 1104879, KF 568171 and KF 567389.

Notes.

Comprised of a single family Bifigurataceae . Order description is adapted from Torres-Cruz et al. (2017).

Figures

Figure 2. Phylogenetic position of genera and genus-level groups of Endogonomycetes based on Maximum Likelihood analysis of SSU- 5.8 S-LSU sequences. The clades are collapsed, with the number of sequences included in parentheses. Question marks above branches indicate low ultra-rapid bootstrap support (< 95). Orders are highlighted in different colours. The uncollapsed phylogram is given in Suppl. material 3.