Mastigosporium Riess
(a genus of anamorphic ascomycetes causing grass leaf-spots)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Form genus	Mastigosporium (a genus of anamorphic ascomycetes causing grass leaf-spots)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Mastigosporium 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
	Bollard, E.G.	1950	* Studies on the genus Mastigosporium I. General account of the species and their host ranges *(Superseded)	TBMS Vol 33 (3+4): 250-264.
	Braun, U.	1995	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol 1	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 1, 333pp, IHW-Verlag

Mastigosporium (a genus of anamorphic ascomycetes causing grass leaf-spots) 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 Mastigosporium (a genus of anamorphic ascomycetes causing grass leaf-spots)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 21 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Mastigosporium (a genus of anamorphic ascomycetes causing grass leaf-spots)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Mastigosporium is also a member of:

Identification Works

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