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Smut fungi
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Smut fungi

Ustilaginomycetes

Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera.

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5 branches of this class, most-observed first

Ustilaginales

orderUstilaginales

Urocystidales

orderUrocystidales

Cintractiellales

orderCintractiellales

Violaceomycetales

orderViolaceomycetales

Uleiellales

orderUleiellales

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83712.