Melanotaeniaceae

Melanotaeniaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Ustilaginomycetes
Order:
Ustilaginales
Family:
Melanotaeniaceae

Type species
Melanotaenium
de Bary 1874
Genera

The Melanotaeniaceae are a family of smut fungi in the order Ustilaginomycetes, containing three genera.[2][3]

It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia (Plantaginaceae family) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.[4]

  1. ^ Begerow, D.; Bauer, R.; Oberwinkler, F. (1998). "Phylogenetic studies on nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA sequences of smut fungi and related taxa". Canadian Journal of Botany. 75 (12): 2045–2056. doi:10.1139/b97-916.
  2. ^ Kirk, P.M.; et al. (2008). Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. with the assistance of T.V. Andrianova (10th ed.). Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CABI. p. 730. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  4. ^ Savchenko, Kyryll; Heluta, Vasyl (January 2010). "Melanotaenium cingens (Back) Magnus (Melanotaeniaceae, Ustilaginales), a new species in Ukraine [In Ukrainian: Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus (Melanotaeniaceae, Ustilaginales) – новий вид в Україні]". Ukrainian Botanical Journal. 67 (5): 721–724.