#Jew's-ear__Jew's-ears__ear_fungus__Auricularia_auricula  widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
  supertype:  #jelly_fungus  any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh
  member of:  #genus_Auricularia__Auricularia  type genus of the Auriculariaceae
     member of:  #family_Auriculariaceae__Auriculariaceae  fungi having gelatinous sporophores
        member of:  #order_Tremellales__Tremellales  fungi varying from gelatinous to waxy or even horny in texture; most are saprophytic
           member of:  #class_Basidiomycetes__Basidiomycetes  large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota
              member of:  #subdivision_Basidiomycota__Basidiomycota__Basidiomycotina__subdivision_Basidiomycotina  comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
                 member of:  #division_Eumycota__Eumycota  true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
                    member of:  #kingdom_Fungi__Fungi__fungus_kingdom  the taxonomic kingdom of lower plants

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