MICROBOTRYACEAE R.T. Moore
(a family of microbotryan smuts)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Microbotryum anther and capitulum smuts					Genus	14 subtaxa	137 images	11 ident. refs
Sphacelotheca hydropiperis a microbotryan smut					Species		19 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	MICROBOTRYACEAE (a family of microbotryan smuts)
Order	MICROBOTRYALES (microbotryan smuts)
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)

MICROBOTRYACEAE 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.)

MICROBOTRYACEAE (a family of microbotryan smuts) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MICROBOTRYALES
(microbotryan smuts)

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 MICROBOTRYACEAE (a family of microbotryan smuts)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 74 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MICROBOTRYACEAE (a family of microbotryan smuts)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

MICROBOTRYACEAE is also a member of:

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