Urocystidales

Urocystidales
Urocystis colchici on onions
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Order: Urocystidales
R. Bauer & Oberw., 1997[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Urocystidiales R. Bauer & Oberw.
  • Urocystales R. Bauer & Oberw.

The Urocystidales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 6 families and about 400 genera. They are a sister order to Ustilaginales.

Urocystidales is also known and classified as the smut fungi.[3] They are serious plant pathogens, Urocystis, is one of the representative genera of the order, it is an example of a smut genus that has a wide host range. The type species Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) A.A. Fisch. Waldh (1867), was described as a pathogen on rye (Secale cereale).[4] They are found in marine and terrestrial environments.[1] The aquatic members of the Doassansiopsis genera are found in the tropics or subtropics.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Urocystidales". www.marinespecies.org. WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  2. ^ Urocystidales in MycoBank.
  3. ^ Lutz, Matthias; Vánky, Kálmán; Bauer, Robert (2012). "Melanoxa, a new genus in the Urocystidales (Ustilaginomycotina)". Mycological Progress. 11: 149–158.
  4. ^ "Urocystis occulta CBS 102.71 v1.0". mycocosm.jgi.doe.gov. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  5. ^ E. B. Gareth Jones, Kevin D Hyde and Ka-Lai Pang (editors) Freshwater Fungi: and Fungal-like Organisms (2014), p. 113, at Google Books