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Pericladium

Pericladium is a genus of smut fungi in the monotypic family Pericladiaceae in the order Ustilaginales.

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Pericladium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Order: Ustilaginales
Family: Pericladiaceae
Vánky (2011)1
Genus: Pericladium
Pass. (1875)
Type species
Pericladium grewiae
Pass. (1875)

Pericladium is a genus of smut fungi in the monotypic family Pericladiaceae in the order Ustilaginales.2

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;3

  • Pericladium grewiae Pass. (1875)
  • Pericladium piperis (Zundel) Mundk. (1944)
  • Pericladium tiliacearum Mundk. & Thirum. (1950)

Former species P. flavesci Prasad & Tyagi (1961) = Pericladium grewiae

References

References

  1. Vánky, K. (2011). "The genus Pericladium (Ustilaginales). Pericladiaceae fam. nov". Mycologia Balcanica. 8 (2): 147–152.
  2. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  3. "Species Fungorum - Search Page - Pericladium". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 25 September 2023.