Ustilaginales
| Ustilaginales | |
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| Huitlacoche | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Ustilaginomycetes |
| Order: |
Ustilaginales (G. Winter 1880) Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997 |
| Families | |
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Anthracoideaceae |
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Anthracoideaceae
Cintractiellaceae
Clintamraceae
Geminaginaceae
Melanopsichiaceae
Uleiellaceae
Ustilaginaceae
Websdaneaceae
The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species.
Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the smut fungi. They are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.
Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.
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.
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