Mycosphere Towards incorporating anamorphic fungi in a natural classification – checklist and notes for 2010 Hyde KD1,2*, McKenzie EHC3 and KoKo TW1 1School of Mae Fah Luang University, 333 M. 1. T. Tasud Muang District, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. 2Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 3Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand. Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, KoKo TW. (2011). Towards incorporating anamorphic fungi in a natural classification – checklist and notes for 2010. Mycosphere 2(1), 1–88. A complilation of anamorphic names for both Ascomycota and Basidiomycota is provided which compises 2873 genera. The genera are listed against a backbone of teleomorphic relationships where known. The study reveals that 699 genera and 94 anamorph-like genera are linked to teleomorphic genera names, 447 genera (one anamorph-like genus) are linked to teleomorph families, orders or classes, while for more than 1728 (60.15%) genera no teleomorph link is known. Key words –Asexual fungi – life cycle – sexual fungi – taxonomy Article Information Received 4 February 2011 Accepted 7 February 2011 Published online 10 March 2011 *Corresponding author: Hyde KD – e-mail –
[email protected] Introduction et al. 2010), these genera will be classified in The purpose of the present paper is to families, orders and classes of Ascomycota and collate the knowledge of anamorphic fungi in Basidiomycota. This will result in more and relationship to their teleomorphic states. It more anamorphic states being described and attempts to classify the anamorphic genera in a illustrated without being given formal names natural biological framework for the Ascomy- and therefore it is important to have a forum cota based on the Outline of Ascomycota 2009 where anamorphic data can be brought to the (Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010) and for the attention of researchers.