Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 2024
             Kingdom Bacillatiᵀ (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
               Phylum Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021
                 Class Actinomycetesᵀ Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
                   Order Micromonosporales Genilloud 2015 [monotypic]
                     Family Micromonosporaceaeᵀ Krassilnikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)
                       Genus Pilimelia Kane 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
                         Pilimelia columellifera (ex Schäfer 1973) Vobis et al. 1986
                           Pilimelia columellifera subsp. pallida (ex Schäfer 1973) Vobis et al. 1986