Melanotaenium

Melanotaenium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Ustilaginomycetes
Order:	Ustilaginales
Family:	Melanotaeniaceae
Genus:	Melanotaenium de Bary 1874 [1]

The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.[2][3]

It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia (L.) Mill. (Plantaginaceaefamily) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.[4]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;[5]

• Melanotaenium adoxae (Bref.) S. Ito (1935)
• Melanotaenium antirrhini Vienn.-Bourg. ex Vánky (1990)
• Melanotaenium apludae Thirum. & M.C. Sriniv. (1964)
• Melanotaenium arthraxonis (Thirum. & Pavgi) Vánky (1997)
• Melanotaenium arundinellae M.S. Patil (1992)
• Melanotaenium byzovae Schwarzman (1960)
• Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus (1892)[4]
• Melanotaenium dimeriae A.R. Patil, T.M. Patil & M.S. Patil (2004)
• Melanotaenium echinochloae M.S. Patil (1992)
• Melanotaenium endogenum (Unger) de Bary (1874)
• Melanotaenium eragrostidis A.R. Patil, T.M. Patil & M.S. Patil (2004)
• Melanotaenium euphorbiae (L.W. Lenz) M.D. Whitehead & Thirum. (1953)
• Melanotaenium gunnerae G.P. Clinton ex Vánky & R. Bauer (1998)
• Melanotaenium hypogaeum (Tul. & C. Tul.) Schellenb. (1911)
• Melanotaenium jaapii Magnus (1911)
• Melanotaenium metzii A.R. Patil, T.M. Patil & M.S. Patil (2004)
• Melanotaenium spermacoces Thirum., Patel, G.W. Dhande & V.V. Bhatt (1956)
• Melanotaenium tochinaianum S. Ito (1935)
• Melanotaenium tuberculatae M.S. Patil (1992)
• Melanotaenium urochloae M.S. Patil (1992)

References

1. De Bary, A. 1874. Protomyces microsporus und seine Verwandten. Botanische Zeitung. 32:97-108
2. Vánky, Kálmán (1994). European Smut Fungi. G. Fischer. pp. 143–146. ISBN 978-1-56081-379-8.
3. Piepenbring, M.; Bauer, R.; Oberwinkler, F. (1998-09-01). "Teliospores of smut fungi teliospore connections, appendages, and germ pores studied by electron microscopy; phylogenetic discussion of characteristics of teliospores". Protoplasma. 204 (3): 202–218. doi:10.1007/BF01280324. ISSN 1615-6102. S2CID 26206370.
4. Savchenko, Kyryll; Heluta, Vasyl (January 2010). "Melanotaenium cingens (Back) Magnus (Melanotaeniaceae, Ustilaginales), a new species in Ukraine [In Ukrainian: Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus (Melanotaeniaceae, Ustilaginales) – новий вид в Україні]". Ukrainian Botanical Journal. 67 (5): 721–724.
5. "Species Fungorum - Search Page - Melanotaenium". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 25 September 2023.