Tilletiales | |
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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]