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Dikarya
	Amanita pantherina, from the Basidiomycota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi;
Subkingdom:	Dikarya; Hibbett, T.Y. James & Vilgalys 2007
Phyla
	Ascomycota; Basidiomycota

Dikarya is a subkingdom of Fungi that includes the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, both of which in general produce dikaryons, may be filamentous or unicellular, but are always without flagella. The Dikarya are most of the so called "higher fungi", but also include many anamorphic species that would have been classified as moulds in historical literature.^[1] Phylogenetically the two phyla regularly group together.^[2]^[3]

[edit] See also

List of fungal orders

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Hibbett, D.S. et al. (March 2007). "A higher level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycol. Res. 111 (5): 509–547. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004.
^ Lutzoni F et al. (2004). "Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits". Amer J Bot 91: 1446–1480. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.10.1446.
^ James, T.Y., et al. (2006). "Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny" (PDF). Nature 443: 818–822. doi:10.1038/nature05110. PMID 17051209. http://plantbio.berkeley.edu/~taylor/papers/James2006.pdf.