HyperDic: genus_ustilago

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Ustilago:
NOUNplantgenus Ustilago, Ustilagotype genus of the Ustilaginaceae
English > genus Ustilago: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningtype genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts.
SynonymUstilago
Membersboil smut, Ustilago maydisA common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass
loose smutA smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head / head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores
Broaderfungus genusIncludes lichen genera
Spanishgenus ustilago, ustilago
Catalangenus ustilago, ustilago

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