| Hemileia | |
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| Hemileia vastatrix uredinial pustules (bar = 5 mm) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
| Order: | Pucciniales |
| Family: | Zaghouaniaceae |
| Genus: | Hemileia Berk. & Broome[1] |
Hemileia is a genus of rust fungi, now placed in the family Zaghouaniaceae,[2] but long considered incertae sedis in the order Pucciniales. This genus has a pan-tropical distribution[3] and includes important crop plant pathogens, such as the causative organism of coffee leaf rust.
- ^ Berkeley MJ, Broome CE (1869) Syll. Pl. Not. Ratisb.: 1157
- ^ Aime MC, McTaggart AR (2021) A higher-rank classification for rust fungi, with notes on genera. Fungal Syst. Evol. 7: 21–47. (Published online 2020 Nov 13. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2021.07.02; available at NCBI)
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