Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Basidiomycota
Subdivisio: Ustilaginomycotina
Classis: Ustilaginomycetes
Ordo: Ustilaginales
Familiae: Anthracoideaceae – Clintamraceae – Geminaginaceae – Melanotaeniaceae – Pericladiaceae – Ustilaginaceae – Websdaneaceae
Name
Ustilaginales Bek., Kurs Bot. 1: 221. 1864 («Ustilaginei»)
References
Primary references
Beketow, A.N. 1862–1874. Курсъ ботаники [Course of Botany]. St.-Petersburg: v tipografii V. Bezobrazova i Kompanii, 1: 1–44 [27 Dec 1862 (14 Dec 1862, Old Style)], 45–94, xi–xvii [14 (2, Old Style) Mai 1863], 94–138 [2 Jan 1864 (21 Dec 1863, Old Style ‘1863’)], 139–218, xii–xvii, xxvii–xxxiii [11 Mai (30 Apr 1864, Old Style) 1864], 219–318, xvi, xxxiii–lix [1 Feb (21 Jan, Old Style) 1865 ‘1864’]; 2: 1–152, i–vii [22 (10, Old Style) Sept 1871], 153–357, viii–xxxiv [8 Mai (26 Apr, Old Style) 1874] Google Books (Volume 1) Google Books (Volume 2, Part 1) Google Books (Volume 2, Part 2) Reference page.
Winter, G. 1880. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze - Schizomyceten, Saccharomyceten und Basidiomyceten. 1(1):1-80
Links
Index Fungorum: IF 90456
MycoBank: MB 90456
Vernacular names
беларуская: Галаўнёвыя грыбы
The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species.[3]
Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the smut fungi. They are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.
Morphology
Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.
Economic importance
They can infect corn plants (Zea mays) producing tumor-like galls that render the ears unsaleable. This corn smut, is also known as huitlacoche and sold canned for consumption in Latin America.
See also
Huitlacoche
References
Notes
Winter G. (1880). Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1 (in German). Leipzig: E. Kummer. p. 73. (as "Ustilagineae")
Bauer, R.; et al. (1997). "Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa". Canadian Journal of Botany. 75: 1311. doi:10.1139/b97-842.
Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. pp. 716–17. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
Bibliography
C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
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