CLATHRACEAE Chevall.
(cage fungi)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	CLATHRACEAE (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)

CLATHRACEAE is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Phallales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Kibby, G.	2015	The weird, wonderful and smelly world of stinkhorns and clathroid fungi	Field Mycology Vol 16 (2): 58-69, rear cover.

CLATHRACEAE (cage fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PHALLALES
(stinkhorns and cage fungi)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

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

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CLATHRACEAE (cage fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CLATHRACEAE (cage fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CLATHRACEAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)