Smardaea amethystina (W. Phillips) Svrček
(Amethyst Disco)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Smardaea amethystina (Amethyst Disco)
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)

Smardaea amethystina 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
	Stephenson, C.R.	2009	Thirty Years of Mycology - a pictorial journey	Field Mycology Vol 10 (3): 90-93.

Smardaea amethystina (Amethyst Disco) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PEZIZALES
(cup fungus)

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 Smardaea amethystina (Amethyst Disco)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Smardaea amethystina (Amethyst Disco)

Vulnerable

VU/D2

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Smardaea amethystina is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)