#smut_fungus__smut any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
supertype: #fungus a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores
subtype: #covered_smut #loose_smut #cornsmut #genus_Sphacelotheca #head_smut #Tilletia_caries #Tilletia_foetida #onion_smut #flag_smut_fungus
member of: #order_Ustilaginales__Ustilaginales parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes
member of: #subdivision_Basidiomycota__Basidiomycota__Basidiomycotina__subdivision_Basidiomycotina comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
member of: #division_Eumycota__Eumycota true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
member of: #kingdom_Fungi__Fungi__fungus_kingdom the taxonomic kingdom of lower plants
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