The Anthracoideaceae are a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
smut fungi
The smuts are multicellular fungus, fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for 'dirt' because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycet ...
in the order
Ustilaginales
The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contained 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species in 2008.
In 2011, monotypic family Pericladiaceae holding just '' Pericladium'' (with 3 species) was added ...
. Collectively, the family contains 20
genera
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...
and 198
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
.
[ Anthracoideaceae was circumscribed by the Bulgarian mycologist Cvetomir M. Denchev in 1997.][
]
Genera
As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020;Anthracoidea
''Anthracoidea'' is a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Anthracoideaceae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Species
About 120 species accepted by Species Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to i ...
'' (112)
*'' Cintractia'' (13)
*'' Dermatosorus'' (6)
*'' Farysia'' (23)
*'' Farysporium'' (1)
*'' Heterotolyposporium'' (2)
*'' Kukwaea'' (1)
*'' Kuntzeomyces'' (2)
*'' Leucocintractia'' (4)
*'' Moreaua'' (39)
*'' Orphanomyces'' (3)
*'' Pilocintractia'' (2)
*'' Planetella'' (1)
*''Portalia
''Portalia mira'' is an extinct species of uncertain placement, described by American paleontologist Charles Walcott from a fossil discovered in the Burgess Shale and initially interpreted as a holothurian echinoderm by Walcott, but this inter ...
'' (1)
*'' Schizonella'' (5)
*'' Stegocintractia'' (6)
*'' Testicularia'' (3)
*'' Tolyposporium'' (5)
*'' Trichocintractia'' (1)
*'' Ustanciosporium'' (22)
Note; '' Crotalia'' 5 species listed in Species Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...
,
See also
* List of Basidiomycota families
This is a list of families in the phylum Basidiomycota of kingdom Fungi. The Basidiomycota are the second largest phyla of the fungi, containing 31515 species. The phylum is divided into three subphyla, the Pucciniomycotina (rust fungi), the Ustila ...
References
External links
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Ustilaginomycotina
Anthracoideaceae
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