Microbotryomycetes
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Sphacelotheca reiliana - head smut of maize (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): William M. Brown Jr.
Source: IPM Images
Author(s): William M. Brown Jr.
Source: IPM Images
Microbotryomycetes
The Microbotryomycetes are a class of basidiomycetous fungi related to the Pucciniomycetes. Most species are either mycoparasites, see Microbotryomycetes (antagonists), or are plant pathogens, causing mainly smut diseases.
Most species have 2 stages, a haploid yeast-like form and a diploid form, producing teliospores and basidia. The class has been described as simple-septate basidiomycetes "having colacosomes and septal pores without microbodies, and related taxa" (see Bauer et al., 2006).
The following orders are included here:
