Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Fungi Whittaker - fungi |
| divisio | Basidiomycota R. T. Moore - club fungi |
| subphylum | Pucciniomycotina |
| class | Agaricostilbomycetes |
| order | Agaricostilbales Oberw. & R. Bauer |
| family | Chionosphaeraceae |
| genus | Chionosphaera D.E. Cox |
| species | Chionosphaera lichenicola Alstrup, B. Sutton & Tønsberg |