Ustilaginales | |
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Huitlacoche | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Ustilaginomycetes |
Subclass: | Ustilaginomycetidae |
Order: | Ustilaginales (G. Winter 1880)[1] Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997[2] |
Families | |
Anthracoideaceae |
The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contained 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species in 2008.[3]
In 2011, monotypic family Pericladiaceae Vánky holding just Pericladium Pass. (with 3 species) was added.[4] Also family Cintractiellaceae Vánky was later placed in a monotypic order Cintractiellales McTaggart & R.G. Shivas in 2020.[5]
Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the smut fungi. They are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.