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Ustilaginales

order of fungi

Also known as: smut fungus

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annotated classification

In fungus: Annotated classification
Order Ustilaginales Parasitic on plants, causing smut of many cereal grains, including wheat, barley, corn, and rice; masses of spores (sori) are usually black and dusty; basidial apparatus consisting of thick-walled teleutospore (probasidium), which upon germination gives rise to a septate or nonseptate tube (metabasidium) bearing…
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