Doassansiaceae

Doassansiaceae
Illusstrations of Doassansia sagittariae, Doassansia alismatis, Doassansia punctiformis, Doassansia deformans and Doassansia martianoffiana from 'Comparative morphology of Fungi', 1928
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Exobasidiomycetes
Order: Doassansiales
Family: Doassansiaceae
(Azbukina & Karatygin) R.T. Moore ex P.M. Kirk, P.F. Cannon & J.C. David, 2001
Synonyms

Doassansioideae Azbukina & Karatygin, 1990

The Doassansiaceae are a family of fungi in the division Basidiomycota and order of Doassansiales. The family contains 11 genera and about 58 species. They have a widespread distribution.[1][2] Doassansiaceae is also known and classified as a smut fungi.[3][4][5]

They have parasitic hyphae with clamps, they are also teliosporic (have a thick-walled resting spore) and dimorphic (can be mold or yeasts) as well as not forming ballistocondia (air discharged spores) in the haploid phase.[6] The do not have haustoria (root-like structures).[7]

When the family was originally created (by R. Bauer and Oberw. 1997),[8] it had 7 genera (Burrillia, Doassansia, Heterodoassansia, Nannfeldtiomyces, Narasimhania, Pseudodoassansia and Tracya) and 36 species. Then Doassinga was added in 1998.[3] Others were added after this date, such as Pseudodermatosorus in 1999.

  1. ^ Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi (2008), p. 219, at Google Books
  2. ^ P. F. Cannon and P. M. Kirk (editors) Fungal Families of the World (2007), p. 107, at Google Books
  3. ^ a b Vánky, K.; Bauer, R.; Begerow, D. (December 1998). "Doassinga, a New Genus of Doassansiales". Mycologia. 90 (6): 964–970. doi:10.2307/3761268. JSTOR 3761268.
  4. ^ Meike Piepenbring, Organization for Flora Neotropica Smut Fungi (Ustilaginomycetes P.P. and Microbotryales, Basidiomycota), 2003, p. 193, at Google Books
  5. ^ K. G. Mukerji and C. Manoharachary (editors) Taxonomy and Ecology of Indian Fungi (2010), p. 156, at Google Books
  6. ^ David J. McLaughlin and Joseph W. Spatafora (editors) Systematics and Evolution (2013), p. 78, at Google Books
  7. ^ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation with the cooperation of the Australian Academy of Science, 2001 Australian Systematic Botany, Volume 14, p. 390, at Google Books
  8. ^ Bauer R, Oberwinkler F, Vánky K. (1997) Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa. Can J Bot 75:1273–1314