PORINACEAE Walt. Watson
(a family of lichens)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Porina a genus of lichens					Genus	1 subtaxa	5 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	PORINACEAE (a family of lichens)
Order	OSTROPALES (an order of lichens and ascomycetes)
Subclass	OSTROPOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	LECANOROMYCETES (a class of lichens)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

PORINACEAE 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.)

PORINACEAE (a family of lichens) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

OSTROPALES
(an order of lichens and 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 PORINACEAE (a family of lichens)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PORINACEAE (a family of lichens)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

PORINACEAE is also a member of:

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