Definition of Order Ustilaginales

1. Noun. Parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ustilaginales

order Thysanura
order Tinamiformes
order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales
order Trichoptera
order Trogoniformes
order Tuberales
order Tubulidentata
order Tulostomatales
order Ulvales
order Umbellales
order Uredinales
order Urodella
order Uropygi
order Urticales
order Ustilaginales (current term)
order Volvocales
order Xiphosura
order Xyridales
order Zeomorphi
order Zygnemales
order Zygnematales
order arms
order book
order code
order form
order in council
order mantophasmatodea
order oedogoniales
order of Saint Benedict

Literary usage of Order Ustilaginales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Smuts (order Ustilaginales) are still more parasitic than the rusts, and as a consequence have suffered still greater degeneration (Fig. 23). ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Diseases of many cultivated cereal grasses and other plants caused by the attacks of fungi of the order Ustilaginales. The mycelium sometimes produces ..."

3. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The smuts (order Ustilaginales) are parasites which have the peculiar habit of attacking the floral parts, and especially the ovaries, of various members of ..."

4. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"Smuts: Plant parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales, so called because they usually produce large quantities of black spores that resemble soot. ..."

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