Kálmán Vánky

Ustilaginomycetes is the class of true smut fungi. They are plant parasites with about 1400 recognised species in 70 genera. They have a simple septum with a septal pore cap, this is different from Agaricomycotina which has a dolipore septum with parenthoesome. The group is monophyletic (has a common ancestor).

The Websdaneaceae are a family of smut fungi in the class Ustilaginomycetes. Collectively, the family contains 2 genera and 22 species.

Sporisorium cruentum is a plant pathogen infecting sorghum, known as Loose kernel smut.

Moesziomyces bullatus is a fungal plant pathogen.

Bauerago is a genus of fungi found in the family Microbotryaceae. It contained 9 species before being reduced to 5 species. The genus name of Bauerago is in honour of Robert Bauer (1950–2014), who was a German mycologist, specialising in rust (Uredinales) and smut (Ustilaginomycetes) fungi. The genus was circumscribed by Kálmán Géza Vánky in Mycotaxon vol.70 on pages 44 and 46 in 1999.

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The Melaniellaceae are a family of fungi in the division Basidiomycota and order of Doassansiales. The family contains 1 genera and 2 species. They have a distribution in south and south-east Asia.

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Conidiosporomyces is a genus of fungi in the smut family Tilletiaceae. The genus was described in 1992 to accommodate the species formerly known as Tilletia ayresii, first described by British naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1899. The species C. verruculosus (formerly Ustilago verruculosa) was described in 1993. Species in the genus are plant pathogens that affect various grasses.

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The Cintractiellaceae are a monotypic, family of smut fungi, in the order Cintractiellales, but unplaced beyond that. The family contains one genera, Cintractiella with 4 species. The family was circumscribed by mycologist Kálmán Vánky in 2003. Family Cintractiellaceae Vánky was placed in a monotypic order Cintractiellales McTaggart & R.G. Shivas in 2020.

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Aurantiosporium is a genus of fungi found in the family Microbotryaceae. It contains 5 species.

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Antherospora is a genus of fungal plant pathogens. They are smut fungi parasitising plants in the Scilloideae.

Urocystis primulae is a fungal plant pathogen that infects several species of Primula. The fungus affects the flowers of the plant, turning the contents of the ovary into a mass of spore balls: clumps of ustilospores wrapped in a layer of sterile cells. It also produces white, powdery conidia in the anthers.

The Uleiellaceae are a family of smut fungi in the order Ustilaginomycetes. The family contains the single genus Uleiella, which has two species. The genus was circumscribed by Joseph Schröter in Hedwigia vol.33 Beibl.: 65 in 1894. The genus name of Uleiella is in honour of Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (1854–1915), who was a German botanist and plant collector.

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