The Cintractiellaceae are a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

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 ...

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 Cintractiellales, but unplaced beyond that. The family contains one

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 ...

, '' Cintractiella'' with 4

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. The family was

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by mycologist

Kálmán Vánky Kálmán Géza Vánky (15 June 1930 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian mycologist with Swedish and Hungarian citizenship, who lived in Germany. He was considered to be the worldwide authority on the subject of smut fungi and has dominated t ...

in 2003. Family Cintractiellaceae was placed in a monotypic order Cintractiellales in 2020.

Taxon

As accepted by

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; *'' Cintractiella diplasiae'' *'' Cintractiella kosraensis'' *'' Cintractiella lamii'' *''

Cintractiella scirpodendri The Cintractiellaceae are a monotypic, family (biology), family of smut fungi, in the order Cintractiellales, but unplaced beyond that. The family contains one genera, ''Cintractiella'' with 4 species. The family was circumscription (taxonomy), c ...

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Ustilaginomycotina Basidiomycota families {{Ustilaginomycotina-stub