CLATHRACEAE Chevall.
(cage fungi)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCLATHRACEAE (cage fungi)
OrderPHALLALES (stinkhorns and cage fungi)
SubclassPHALLOMYCETIDAE (stinkhorns, stinkhorn truffles, and earth-stars, coral, tooth and club fungi)
ClassAGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
SubphylumAGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
PhylumBASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Kibby, G. 2015 The weird, wonderful and smelly world of stinkhorns and clathroid fungi Field Mycology Vol 16 (2): 58-69, rear cover.

CLATHRACEAE (cage fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CLATHRACEAE (cage fungi)
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