The gloméromycètes set up a group of mushrooms far from known of the public but ecologically essential. They are mushrooms Mycorhizien S alive in symbiosis with the roots of a great number of plants.

One described approximately 150 species of them, but there are some probably much more.

At the systematic level the gloméromycètes constitute a division of the reign of the mushrooms ( Fungi or Mycota ). This division was creates recently on the basis of phylogenetic study; these mushrooms were formerly classified in the order of the Glomales among the zygomycètes ( Zygomycota ).

References

• Redecker, Dirk. 2005. Glomeromycota. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and to their relative (S). Version 01 July 2005. , in The Tree off Life Web Project

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