Ustilaginoidea

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.

Ustilaginoidea
U. virens smut balls on a rice head
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Ustilaginoidea

Bref. (1895)
Type species
Ustilaginoidea oryzae
(Pat.) Bref. (1895)
Species

U. burkillii
U. dichromenae
U. polliniae
U. reticulata
U. setariae
U. virens

Synonyms

Dubiomyces Lloyd (1921)[1]

References

  1. Lloyd CG. (1921). "Mycological Notes 65". Mycological Writings. 6 (65).
  2. 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.
  3. 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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