Translingual

Proper noun

Pleosporales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Dothideomycetes – principally some of the fungi that feed on decaying plants, distinguished morphologically by having perithecioid ascomata with pseudoparaphyses amongst the asci.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom; Ascomycota - phylum; Pezizomycotina - subdivision; Dothideomycetes - class

Hyponyms

• (order): For families see Pleosporales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521