Doassansiaceae
| Doassansiaceae | |
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| Illusstrations of Doassansia sagittariae, Doassansia alismatis, Doassansia punctiformis, Doassansia deformans and Doassansia martianoffiana from 'Comparative morphology of Fungi', 1928 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Exobasidiomycetes |
| Order: | Doassansiales |
| Family: | Doassansiaceae (Azbukina & Karatygin) R.T. Moore ex P.M. Kirk, P.F. Cannon & J.C. David, 2001 |
| Synonyms | |
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Doassansioideae Azbukina & Karatygin, 1990 | |
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 ballistocondia (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.