''Phyllachora leveilleana'' is a species of
fungus
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
,
a member of the division
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 ...
, and was first
described by
Ferdinand Theissen and
Hans Sydow in 1917.
[Theiss. & Syd. (1917), In: ''Annls mycol.'' 14(6):448.] ''Phyllachora leveilleana'' belongs to the genus ''
Phyllachora'', and family
Phyllachoraceae.
[Cannon P.F. (2019).Phyllachorales (version Oct 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.]
References
Phyllachorales
Taxa named by Ferdinand Theissen
Taxa named by Hans Sydow
Fungi described in 1917
Fungus species
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