CANDELARIACEAE Hakul.
(a family of lichens)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Candelaria a genus of lichens					Genus	1 subtaxa	6 images
Candelariella a genus of crustose lichens					Genus	4 subtaxa	13 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	CANDELARIACEAE (a family of lichens)
Order	CANDELARIALES (an order of fungi)
Class	LECANOROMYCETES (a class of lichens)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Westberg, M. & Clerc, P.	2012	Five species of Candelaria and Candelariella (Ascomycota, Candelariales) new to Switzerland	Mycokeys Vol 3: 1-12.

CANDELARIACEAE (a family of lichens) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

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 CANDELARIACEAE (a family of lichens)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CANDELARIACEAE (a family of lichens)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CANDELARIACEAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)