Helicobasidium purpureum (Tul.) Pat.
(Violet Root Rot - causative organism)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Helicobasidium purpureum (Violet Root Rot - causative organism)
Genus	Helicobasidium (a genus of pucciniomycetes)
Family	HELICOBASIDIACEAE (a family of pucciniomycetes)
Order	HELICOBASIDIALES (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)

Helicobasidium purpureum 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
	Fox, R.T.V.	2006	Fungal foes in your garden no 59: Violet root rot of Asparagus	Mycologist Vol 19 (1): 46-47.

Helicobasidium purpureum (Violet Root Rot - causative organism) 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 Helicobasidium purpureum (Violet Root Rot - causative organism)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 17 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Helicobasidium purpureum (Violet Root Rot - causative organism)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Helicobasidium purpureum is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)