GEASTRALES K. Hosaka & Castellano
(earth-stars)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
GEASTRACEAE earthstars					Family	16 subtaxa	177 images	28 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Order	GEASTRALES (earth-stars)
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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ellis, M.B. & J.P.	1990	Fungi without gills (Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes) an identification handbook	329pp, Chapman and Hall

GEASTRALES (earth-stars) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

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 GEASTRALES (earth-stars)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 92 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GEASTRALES (earth-stars)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

GEASTRALES is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)