CHUCK'S
PLANT FAMILIES
OF
NEW YORK STATE

Caution!

FIVE KINGDOM SYSTEM
(WHITTAKER)

Kingdom: Animalia

Kingdom: Monera
     Subkingdom Archaebacteriobionta (archaebacteria)
     Subkingdom Eubacteriobionta (true bacteria)
Kingdom: Protoctista
     Subkingdom Phycobionta (algae)
     Subkingdom Mastigobionta (chrytrids & water molds)
     Subkingdom Myxomycota (cellular slime molds & true slime molds)
Kingdom: Fungi
     Division Zygomycota (570) (coenocytic fungi)
         Subdivision Zygomycotina (black molds)
     Division Eumycota (350) (septate fungi)
         Subdivision Ascomycotina (56,000) (sac fungi: yeasts, blue molds,
         powdery mildew, morels, truffles)
         Subdivision Basidiomycotina (25,000) (club fungi: gill, pore, coral, toothed
         fungi; puffballs; stinkhorns; rusts; smuts)
         Subdivision Deuteromycotina (22,000) (imperfect fungi)
         Subdivision Lichenes (13,000) (foliose, fruticose, crustose, leprose)
  Kingdom: Plantae
 


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