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Melanotaenium
Sign in to saveThe Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.
Species
bedstraw smut
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassUstilaginomycetes
- OrderUstilaginales
- FamilyMelanotaeniaceae
Habitatmarine
Observations48
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Melanotaeniaceae
- Collections
- WSP, BPI, IPA/SP, CUP
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Melanotaeniaceae
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- taxon name
- Melanotaenium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Melanotaenium endogenum
- taxon author citation
- de Bary
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.
It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia (Plantaginaceae family) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melanotaenium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.