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Many of the citations and authorities in the list below were obtained from the Index
Fungorum databases www.indexfungorum.org. A brief list of exemplar genera,
including the type for automatically typified names, is given for each order (for small
orders, all included genera are listed). A number of the genera listed are used in a
modern, restricted sense, and readers are urged to consult the primary literature cited
below and in Tables 1-3 for information about current generic concepts. Comprehensive
lists of genera and families included in each order will be forthcoming in the Dictionary
of the Fungi (10th edn; listing on-line at www.indexfungorum.org) and in the next
revision of Myconet (for Ascomycota). Further information on the names of fungi (not
only kingdom Fungi) above the rank of order and their places of publication may be
found in the preliminary catalogue compiled by David (2002).
In accordance with the practice in recent editions of the Code, all scientific names
regardless of rank are placed in italic type here except in the first line of the treatment of
each accepted taxon where they are given in bold Roman type to make them stand out.
When these names are used by other mycologists in their own publications, we wish to
encourage the practice of the use of italics as recommended in the Preface to the current
Code (McNeill et al. 2006).
Kingdom: Fungi T. L. Jahn & F. F. Jahn ex R. T. Moore, Bot. Mar. 23: 371 (1980).
Synonym: Fungi T. L. Jahn & F. F. Jahn, How to Know the Protozoa: 7 (1949), nomen
nudum.
The concept of the Fungi as one of six kingdoms of life was introduced by Jahn & Jahn
(1949), and a five kingdom system was advanced by Whittaker (1959), but neither of
these works included a Latin diagnosis and the name was therefore invalid under the
Code until the required Latin was provided by Moore (1980). Although Moore did not
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