UROCYSTIDACEAE Begerow, R. Bauer & Oberw.
(a family of fungi)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Melanustilospora ari Arum Smut	Species			1 ident. refs
Urocystis a genus of smut fungi	Genus	16 subtaxa	92 images	11 ident. refs
Vankya ornithogali Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem Smut	Species		16 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	UROCYSTIDACEAE (a family of fungi)
Order	UROCYSTIDALES (an order of fungi)
Class	USTILAGINOMYCETES (smut fungi and relatives)
Subphylum	USTILAGINOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

UROCYSTIDACEAE is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ustilaginomycetes)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

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

USTILAGINOMYCETES
(smut fungi and relatives)

USTILAGINOMYCOTINA
(a subphylum of fungi)

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 UROCYSTIDACEAE (a family of fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 134 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for UROCYSTIDACEAE (a family of fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

UROCYSTIDACEAE is also a member of:

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