Ustilaginales

Ustilaginales
	Huitlacoche; Huitlacoche
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi;
Phylum:	Basidiomycota;
Subphylum:	Ustilaginomycotina;
Class:	Ustilaginomycetes;
Order:	Ustilaginales; (G. Winter 1880) Bauer & Oberwinkler 1997
genera
	Ustilago; Cintractia

The order Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the "smut fungi"

Morphology

Has a thick-walled resting spore (teliospore), known as the "brand" (burn) spore or chlamydospore.

Ustilaginales are serious plant pathogens, with only the dikaryotic stage being obligately parasitic.

↑ Winter, G. (1880). Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweitz, Vol. 1. Leipzig: E. Kummer. p. 73. (as "Ustilagineae")
↑ Bauer, R.; et al. (1997). "Ultrastructural markers and systematics in smut fungi and allied taxa". Can. J. Bot. 75: 1311.

C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., Introductory Mycology, 4^th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5