The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.
[2][3] 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.
[4] As accepted by Species Fungorum;[5]
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