Eocronartium muscicola (Pers.) Fitzp.
(Moss Rust)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Eocronartium muscicola (Moss Rust)
Family	EOCRONARTIACEAE (a family of pucciniomycetes)
Order	PLATYGLOEALES (an order of pucciniomycetes)
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)

Eocronartium muscicola 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
	Petersen, J.H.	1999	Key to the genera of clavarioid fungi in Northern Europe	7pp

Eocronartium muscicola (Moss Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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 Eocronartium muscicola (Moss Rust)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 5 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Eocronartium muscicola (Moss Rust)

Rare

VU/D2

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Eocronartium muscicola is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)