Melanotaenium

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

The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.[2][3]

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

  1. ^ De Bary, A. 1874. Protomyces microsporus und seine Verwandten. Botanische Zeitung. 32:97-108
  2. ^ Vánky, Kálmán (1994). European Smut Fungi. G. Fischer. pp. 143–146. ISBN 978-1-56081-379-8.
  3. ^ Piepenbring, M.; Bauer, R.; Oberwinkler, F. (1998-09-01). "Teliospores of smut fungi teliospore connections, appendages, and germ pores studied by electron microscopy; phylogenetic discussion of characteristics of teliospores". Protoplasma. 204 (3): 202–218. doi:10.1007/BF01280324. ISSN 1615-6102. S2CID 26206370.
  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.