Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex G. Yamada
(Japanese Pear Rust)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust)
Genus	Gymnosporangium (juniper rust)
Family	PUCCINIACEAE (a family of rust fungi)
Order	PUCCINIALES (rust fungi)
Class	PUCCINIOMYCETES (rust fungi etc)
Subphylum	PUCCINIOMYCOTINA (rust fungi etc)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Gymnosporangium asiaticum is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Pucciniomycetes)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Laundon, G.	1977	Gymnosporangium asiaticum Miyabe ex Yamada	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 541: 1.

Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Gymnosporangium
(juniper rust)

PUCCINIALES
(rust fungi)

PUCCINIOMYCETES
(rust fungi etc)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 14 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Gymnosporangium asiaticum (Japanese Pear Rust)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Gymnosporangium asiaticum is also a member of:

Identification Works

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