| NOUN | plant | order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales | parasitic fungi causing smuts |
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| Meaning | Parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes. | |
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| Synonym | Ustilaginales | |
| Member of | Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina | Comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium |
| Members | Tilletiaceae, family Tilletiaceae | A family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster |
| Ustilaginaceae, family Ustilaginaceae | A fungus family of loose smuts | |
| smut, smut fungus | Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | |
| Broader | fungus order | The order of fungi |