Doassansiaceae

The Doassansiaceae are a family of fungi in the division Basidiomycota and order of Doassansiales. The family contains 11 genera and about 58 species. They have a widespread distribution. Doassansiaceae is also known and classified as a smut fungi. They have parasitic hyphae with clamps, they are also teliosporic (have a thick-walled resting spore) and dimorphic (can be mold or yeasts) as well as not forming ballistoconidia (air discharged spores) in the haploid phase. The do not have haustoria (root-like structures). When the family was originally created (by R. Bauer and Oberw. 1997), it had 7 genera (Burrillia, Doassansia, Heterodoassansia, Nannfeldtiomyces, Narasimhania, Pseudodoassansia and Tracya) and 36 species. Then Doassinga was added in 1998. Others were added after this date, such as Pseudodermatosorus in 1999....read more on Wikipedia.