Melanotaenium
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| Genus: | Melanotaenium de Bary 1874 |
The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.
It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens (Beck) Magnus which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia (L.) Mill. (Plantaginaceaefamily) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.