| Tilletiales | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Karnal bunt spore | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Exobasidiomycetes |
| Subclass: | Exobasidiomycetidae |
| Order: | Tilletiales Kreisel ex R.Bauer & Oberw. (1997) [1] |
| Family: | Tilletiaceae J.Schröt. (1887) |
| Type genus | |
| Tilletia | |
| Genera | |
Conidiosporomyces | |
The Tilletiales are an order of smut fungi in the class Exobasidiomycetes. [2] [3] [4] It is a monotypic order, consisting of a single family, the Tilletiaceae, which contains seven genera. The roughly 150 species in the Tilletiales all infect hosts of the grass family, except for species of Erratomyces , which occur on legumes. [5]