Archaeosporales | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Glomeromycota |
Class: | Glomeromycetes |
Order: |
Archaeosporales C.Walker & A.Schüßler (2004) |
Families | |
Archaeosporales is an order of fungi best known as arbuscular mycorrhiza to vascular land plants (Tracheophyta). but also form free living endocyte symbioses with cyanobacteria. The free living forms have a Precambrian fossil record back 2.2 Ga, well before evolution of Tracheophyta.