Living organisms are subdivided into 5 major kingdoms, including the Monera, the Protista (Protoctista), the Fungi, the Plantae, and the Animalia. Each kingdom is further subdivided into separate phyla or divisions. Generally "animals" are subdivided into phyla, while "plants" are subdivided into divisions.
Kingdom of Protista
Brown Alga
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Protista
Division
Heterokontophyta
Phaeophyceae
Orders
Dictyotales
Desmerestiales
Fucales
Laminariales (kelps) etc.
The Brown algae are a large group of multi-cellular algae, including various sorts of seaweed. Their distinctive greenish-brown color comes from the pigment fucoxanthin. Well-known members include kelps and bladder wrack. Genetic studies show their closest relatives are the yellow-green algae.
Red Alga
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Protista
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Classes
Florideophyceae
Bangiophyceae
Cyanidiophyceae
The red algae (Rhodophyta) are a large group of mostly multi-cellular, marine algae, including many notable types of seaweed. Most of the coralline algae, which secrete calcium carbonate and play a major role in building reefs, belong here. Red algae such as dulse and nori are a traditional part of European and Asian cuisine and are used to make certain other products like agar and food additives.
Kingdom Fungi
A. Mushroom
a) Agaricales
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Division
Basidiomycota
Class
Homobasidiomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Agarics (also known as "gilled mushrooms") are one of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order Agaricales has about 4.000 species, or one fourth of all known homobasidiomycetes. They range from the deadly destroying angel to the common button mushrooms, from the hallucinogenic Fly agaric to the bioluminecents Jack-O-Lantern mushroom.
b) Boletales
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Division
Basidiomycota
Class
Homobasidiomycetes
Order
Boletales
The best known members of Boletales are mushrooms characterized by holding their spores in a spongy mass of vertical tubes (pores) on the underside of the mushroom, instead of on gills. Boletes belong to the botanical families Boletaceae and Gyroporacaea.
The order also includes some gilled mushrooms (Paxillus, Gomphidius) which have the same flesh texture as the Boletes, spore-bearing tissue which is also easily separable from the cap, and similar microscopic characteristics of spores and cystidia.
The order Boletales has about 70 species (0.4% of the described homobasidiomycetes).
B. Bracket Fungi
Bracket fungi, or shelf fungus, are fungi notable for bearing fruiting bodies (conk) as or in a "bracket": a grouping of individual mushroom caps that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. Brackets can range from only a single row of a few caps, to dozens of rows of caps that can weigh several hundred pounds. Many types of bracket fungi are polypores.
Examples of bracket fungi include the Birch Bracket and the Beefsteak Fungus.
a) Birch Bracket
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Homobasidiomycetes
Order
Polyporales
Family
Fomitopsidaceae
Genus
Piptoporus
Species
Betulinus
Binomial name
Piptoporus betulinus
Birch Bracket (Piptoporus betulinus - also known as Razor Strop) is one of the commonest polyporous bracket fungi growing almost exclusively on birch, as the name suggests. The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and the fruit bodies can last for several years. In the past it was used as both a medicine and as tinder. It's an edible mushroom, with a bitter taste and a strong, pleasant odor.
It is a necrotrophic
They are pale, with a smooth grayish-brown top surface, with the underside a creamy white and with hundreds of pores that contain the b) Beefsteak fungus
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Homobasidiomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Fistulinaceae
Genus
Fistulina
Species
Hepatica
Binomial name
Fistulina hepatica
The Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica) is an unusual bracket fungus that is most commonly seen in Britain, but can be found in North America, Australia and the rest of the Europe. It is sometimes called the Beefsteak Polypore or the Ox Tongue. As its name suggests, it looks remarkably similar to a slab of raw meat. It has been used as a meat substitute in the past, and can still be found in some French markets. It has a sour, slightly acidic taste.
The shape resembles a large tongue, and it is rough-surfaced with a reddish-brown color. The spores are released from minute pores on the creamy-white underside of the fruit body. A younger Beefsteak Fungus is a pinkish-red color, and it darkens with age. It bleeds a dull red juice when cut, and the cut flesh further resembles meat.
Kingdom of Plantae
A. Vascular Plant
Horsetail
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Division
Equisetophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Equisetales
Family
Equisetaceae
Genus
Equisetum
The horsetails comprise 15 species of plants in the genus Equisetum. This genus is the only one in the family Equisetaceae, which in turn is the only family in the order Equisetales and the class Equisetopsida. This class is now usually placed as the sole member of the Division Equisetophyta, though some authorities place it instead in the Division Tracheophyta or Archeophyta. The plants in the genus Equisetum are considered fern allies. Other classes and orders of Equisetophyta are known from the fossil record, where they were important members of the world flora during the Carboniferous period.
B. Non-vascular Plant
Hornwort
Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Division
Bryophyta
Class
Anthocerotae
Orders
Anthocerotales
Nothothylales
Botanical name
Ceratophyllum demersum
Hornworts (or horned liverworts) are a group of non-vascular plants comprising the class Anthocerotae. Some botanists classify these plants in...
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