Ustilaginoidea
| Ustilaginoidea | |
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| U. virens smut balls on a rice head | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Ustilaginoidea Bref. (1895) |
| Type species | |
| Ustilaginoidea oryzae (Pat.) Bref. (1895) |
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| Species | |
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U. burkillii |
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| Synonyms | |
Ustilaginoidea is a genus of anamorphic fungi whose teleomorphic states are in the Hypocreales order. The genus is widespread in subtropical regions, and contains six species.[2]Ustilaginoidea was circumscribed by German botanist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1895.[3]Ustilaginoidea virens causes the disesase known alternatively as rice false smut, pseudosmut, or green smut.
References
- ^ Lloyd CG. (1921). "Mycological Notes 65". Mycological Writings 6 (65).
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 717. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ^ Brefeld O. (1895). "Hemibasidii. Brandpilze III. Cultur der Brandpilzen in Nährlösungen". Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie (in German) 12: 99–236 (see p. 194).
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