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Definition of Order Ustilaginales
1. Noun. Parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Order
Group relationships: Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, Subdivision Basidiomycota, Subdivision Basidiomycotina
Member holonyms: Smut, Smut Fungus, Family Ustilaginaceae, Ustilaginaceae, Family Tilletiaceae, Tilletiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ustilaginales
Literary usage of Order Ustilaginales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Smuts (order Ustilaginales) are still more parasitic than the rusts, and as a
consequence have suffered still greater degeneration (Fig. 23). ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Diseases of many cultivated cereal grasses and other plants caused by the attacks
of fungi of the order Ustilaginales. The mycelium sometimes produces ..."
3. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The smuts (order Ustilaginales) are parasites which have the peculiar habit of
attacking the floral parts, and especially the ovaries, of various members of ..."
4. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"Smuts: Plant parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales, so called because they
usually produce large quantities of black spores that resemble soot. ..."
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