Tilletia caries (DC.) Tul. & C. Tul.
(Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut)
Genus	Tilletia (a genus of smut fungi)
Family	TILLETIACEAE (a family of smut fungi)
Order	TILLETIALES (an order of smut fungi)
Subclass	EXOBASIDIOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ustilaginomycetes)
Class	USTILAGINOMYCETES (smut fungi and relatives)
Subphylum	USTILAGINOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Tilletia caries is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ustilaginomycetes)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Records of Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut) :
1: Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut)
27 Jun 1972	OSGR: SE75	53° 60’ N, 0° 50’ W	Vice County: South-east Yorks (VC 61)	England
infected ear of Wheat

Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Tilletia
(a genus of smut fungi)

USTILAGINOMYCETES
(smut fungi and relatives)

USTILAGINOMYCOTINA
(a subphylum of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Tilletia caries (Bunt Of Wheat, Stinking Smut)

Endangered

EN/B

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Tilletia caries is also a member of:

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)