| NOUN | plant | Ustilago, genus Ustilago | type genus of the Ustilaginaceae |
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| Meaning | type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts. | |
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| Synonym | genus Ustilago | |
| Members | boil smut, Ustilago maydis | A common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass |
| loose smut | A 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 | |
| Broader | fungus genus | Includes lichen genera |
| Spanish | genus ustilago, ustilago | |
| Catalan | genus ustilago, ustilago | |
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