Aseroe rubra Labill.
(Starfish Fungus)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Aseroe rubra (Starfish Fungus)
Family	PHALLACEAE (stinkhorns and cage fungi)
Order	PHALLALES (stinkhorns and cage fungi)
Subclass	PHALLOMYCETIDAE (stinkhorns, stinkhorn truffles, and earth-stars, coral, tooth and club fungi)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Spooner, B.M.	2005	Aseroë at Oxshott - A Decade on	Field Mycology Vol 6 (1): 25-6.
	Spooner, B.M.	1994	Aseroë rubra at Oxshott	Mycologist Vol 08 (4): 153, front cover.

Aseroe rubra (Starfish Fungus) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PHALLACEAE
(stinkhorns and cage fungi)

PHALLALES
(stinkhorns and cage fungi)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Gasteromycetes
(puffballs, earthstars,  earthballs, stinkhorns, truffles etc.)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

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

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Aseroe rubra (Starfish Fungus)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Aseroe rubra (Starfish Fungus)

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Aseroe rubra Labill.
(Starfish Fungus)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Aseroe rubra is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)