The ''Melanotaenium'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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 family
Melanotaeniaceae.
It includes species such as smut fungus ''Melanotaenium cingens'' which was found parasitizing ''
Linaria genistifolia'' (
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family or veronica family, is a large, diverse family (biology), family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as Antirrhinum, snapdragon and Digitalis, foxglove. It is unrelated ...
family) on Chornomorsky (
Tendra Island,
Kherson Oblast
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, Ukraine) in 2007.
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum
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;
*''
Melanotaenium adoxae''
*''
Melanotaenium antirrhini''
*''
Melanotaenium apludae''
*''
Melanotaenium arthraxonis''
*''
Melanotaenium arundinellae''
*''
Melanotaenium byzovae''
*''
Melanotaenium cingens''
[
*'' Melanotaenium dimeriae''
*'' Melanotaenium echinochloae''
*'' Melanotaenium endogenum''
*'' Melanotaenium eragrostidis''
*'' Melanotaenium euphorbiae''
*'' Melanotaenium gunnerae''
*'' Melanotaenium hypogaeum''
*'' Melanotaenium jaapii''
*'' Melanotaenium metzii''
*'' Melanotaenium spermacoces''
*'' Melanotaenium tochinaianum''
*'' Melanotaenium tuberculatae''
*'' Melanotaenium urochloae''
]
References
Ustilaginomycotina
Taxa described in 1874
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