Smut Fungi

(Ustilaginomycetes p.p. and Microbotryales, Basidiomycota)
by Meike Piepenbring

Flora Neotropica Monograph 86 describes 34 genera and 227 species of neotropical smut fungi. This book includes introductory material about the diversity of smut fungi, how smut fungi can be recognized in the field, the life cycle of these organisms, morphology, dispersal, distribution, host plants, molecular research, chemotaxonomy, systematics, phytopathology, uses, and full species descriptions, nomenclature, identification keys, illustrations of the species and ornamentation of teliospores, and maps of the neotropical species.

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