Melanotaenium

Melanotaenium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Order: Ustilaginales
Family: Melanotaeniaceae
Genus: Melanotaenium
de Bary 1874

The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.

It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia (L.) Mill. (Plantaginaceae family) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.

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