HyperDic: flag_smut_fungus

English > 1 sense of the expression *flag smut fungus*:
NOUN	plant	flag smut fungus	a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores

English > *flag smut fungus*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	A smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores.
Member of	Urocystis, genus Urocystis	A genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae
Narrower	wheat flag smut, Urocystis tritici	fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat
Broader	smut, smut fungus	Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales