Puccinia mariana Sacc.
(Milk Thistle Rust)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Puccinia mariana (Milk Thistle Rust)
Genus	Puccinia (a genus of rust fungi)
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)

Puccinia mariana 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
	Gjaerum, H.B. & Dennis, R.W.G.	1997	New British Records 142: Puccinia mariana Sacc.	Mycologist Vol 11 (4): 151.

Puccinia mariana (Milk Thistle Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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 Puccinia mariana (Milk Thistle Rust)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Puccinia mariana (Milk Thistle Rust)

VU/D2

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Puccinia mariana is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)