Ustilaginales

Taxobox
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name = Ustilaginales


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image_caption = Huitlacoche
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Ustilaginomycotina
classis = Ustilaginomycetes
ordo = Ustilaginales
ordo_authority = (G. Winter 1880) [cite book | author = Winter, G. | year = 1880 | title = Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1 | pages = 73 | publisher = E. Kummer | location = Leipzig (as "Ustilagineae")] Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997 [cite journal | author = Bauer, R., "et al." | year = 1997 | title = Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa. | journal = Can. J. Bot. | volume = 75 | pages = 1311]
subdivision_ranks = genera
subdivision =
Ustilago
Cintractia

Ustilaginales is an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes.

The order "Ustinaginales" is also known and classified as the "smut fungi"

Morphology

Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.

Economic Importance

Ustilaginales are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.

References

*C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., "Introductory Mycology, 4^th ed." (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5