The Medeolariales are an
order
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
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of the class
Leotiomycetes
The Leotiomycetes are a class of ascomycete fungi. Many of them cause serious plant diseases.
Systematics
The class Leotiomycetes contains numerous species with an anamorph placed within the '' fungi imperfecti'' (deuteromycota), that have onl ...
within the phylum
Ascomycota
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...
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The order is
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
, containing the single family Medeolariaceae, which in turn contains the single genus ''Medeolaria'' that contains the species ''Medeolaria farlowii'', described by Thaxter in 1922.
References
Leotiomycetes
Ascomycota orders
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