Metacoleroa dickiei (Berk. & Broome) Petr.
(Twinflower Rust)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Metacoleroa dickiei (Twinflower Rust)
Family	VENTURIACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	VENTURIALES (an order of fungi)
Subclass	PLEOSPOROMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	DOTHIDEOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Metacoleroa dickiei 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
	Ainsworth, M., Taylor, S. & Cannon, P.F.	2015	Following in the footsteps of Dickie and Leighton: some rarely recorded microfungi on Twinflower leaves including Ceramothyrium linnaeae, new to Britain	Field Mycology Vol 16 (1): 5-11.

Metacoleroa dickiei (Twinflower Rust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DOTHIDEOMYCETES
(a class of ascomycetes)

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 Metacoleroa dickiei (Twinflower Rust)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Metacoleroa dickiei (Twinflower Rust)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Metacoleroa dickiei is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)