Ustilaginales Basidiomycota Fungi Flora and Fauna

Ustalago nuda is a fungus causing a seed borne disease which affects winter and spring barley. Information and a photograph.

• Exobasidiaceae - Photographs of leaves affected by Exobasidium rostrupii and fungi Exobasidium vaccinii.
• Bunt or Stinking Smut - Tilletia tritici causes this infection in wheat. Photographs and information fungi on this fungus.
• Loose Smut - Ustilago nuda is the infective organism in this condition which ustilaginales affects wheat. Photographs and information.
• APSnet Image of the week: Tilletia controversa - Microscopic image of teliospores of this species which is commonly fungi known as the dwarf bunt fungus.
• Flag Smut - Urocystis agropyri can affect wheat and other grass species, the plants affected being severely stunted. Photographs and information on this fungus.
• Ustilago violacea - Photograph and information on this smut, seen here ustilaginales infecting flowers basidiomycota of Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi.
• Ustilago maydis - Article by Tom Volk on this species which causes corn smut infecting the corn ears, but eaten as a delicacy in Mexico.
• Ustilaginales - Information from Wikipedia on this order of fungi, basidiomycota members of ustilaginales which are serious plant pathogens and basidiomycota commonly called smuts.
• Exobasidium vaccinii - Photographs of this species and its typical habitat.
• Ustilago tritici - Microscopic image.

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