Living Beings

    genus · Scientific classification

    Pleurotus

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    Source-identified Pleurotus ostreatus; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Oyster Mushroom · Dominicus Johannes Bergsma · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Classification in context

    Lineage

    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. KingdomFungi
    4. PhylumBasidiomycota
    5. ClassAgaricomycetes
    6. OrderAgaricales
    7. FamilyPleurotaceae
    8. GenusPleurotus
    Advanced classification

    Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

    1. cellular organisms cellular root
    2. Eukaryota domain
    3. Opisthokonta clade
    4. Fungi kingdom
    5. Dikarya subkingdom
    6. Basidiomycota phylum
    7. Agaricomycotina subphylum
    8. Agaricomycetes class
    9. Agaricomycetidae subclass
    10. Agaricales order
    11. Pleurotineae suborder
    12. Pleurotaceae family
    13. Pleurotus genus

    NCBI Taxonomy (2026-11-05 reconciled backbone) · Taxon source ↗

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    Principal members

    1 published profile in this branch.

    Pleurotus ostreatus · species

    Within this taxon

    Published profiles

    Source-identified Pleurotus ostreatus; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Species · Pleurotus

    Oyster Mushroom

    Pleurotus ostreatus

    The oyster mushroom forms overlapping shelves on wood. It is both a wild decomposer and an extensively cultivated fungus, with fruiting-body development …