Leucosporidiales [SEP] parent taxon
Leucosporidiales
The Leucosporidiales are an order of fungi in the Microbotryomycetes class of the Basidiomycota. The order contains a single family, the Leucosporidiaceae, which in turn contains three genera and eight species. The order was circumscribed in 2003; the family was first described in 1981, but the naming was invalid, and subsequently redescribed in 2001.
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of