''Phyllachora leveilleana'' is a species of

fungus A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from th ...

, 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 Ferdinand Theissen (27 July 1877 in Krefeld – 5 September 1919) was a German-Austrian Jesuit priest and mycologist. He studied theology at the seminary in Feldkirch, then from 1902 to 1908 was stationed in São Leopoldo, Brazil. Following h ...

and

Hans Sydow Hans Sydow (29 January 1879 – 6 June 1946) was a German mycologist and the son of mycologist and lichenologist, Paul Sydow (1851–1925). Career Hans Sydow worked at the Dresdner Bank in Berlin between 1904 and 1937 rising to divisional mana ...

in 1917.Theiss. & Syd. (1917), In: ''Annls mycol.'' 14(6):448. ''Phyllachora leveilleana'' belongs to the genus ''

Phyllachora ''Phyllachora'' is a genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae. An Outline of Fungi in 2020 listed up to 1513 species. '' Phyllachora queenslandica'' (from Australia) is found on shrub '' Neolitsea dealbata''. Species A selected few are show ...

'', and family

Phyllachoraceae Phyllachoraceae is a family of sac fungi. Genera As accepted by 2020 Outline (with amount of species per genus); *'' Ascovaginospora'' (1) *'' Brobdingnagia'' (4) *'' Camarotella'' (8) *'' Coccodiella'' (27) *'' Cyclodomus'' (5) *'' Des ...

.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 {{Phyllachorales-stub