Octospora orthotrichi (Cooke & Ellis) K.B. Khare & V.P. Tewari, 1978
(a bryoparasitic discomycete)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Octospora orthotrichi (a bryoparasitic discomycete)
Genus	Octospora (a genus of discomycetes)
Family	PYRONEMATACEAE (a family of discomycetes)
Order	PEZIZALES (cup fungus)
Subclass	PEZIZOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of cup fungi and discomycetes)
Class	PEZIZOMYCETES (discomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Octospora orthotrichi 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
()	Egertova, Z., Eckstein, J. & Vega, M.	2015	Lamprospora tuberculata, Octospora ithacaensis, O. orthotrichi and O. affinis – four bryoparasitic ascomycetes new to the Czech Republic	Czech Mycology Vol 67 (2): 119-133.

Octospora orthotrichi (a bryoparasitic discomycete) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Octospora
(a genus of discomycetes)

PEZIZALES
(cup fungus)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Octospora orthotrichi (a bryoparasitic discomycete)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Octospora orthotrichi is also a member of:

Identification Works

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