Microbotryum Lév.
(anther and capitulum smuts)

Subtaxon	Rank	No of images	No of ID refs
Microbotryum cardui	Species		1 ident. refs
Microbotryum flosculorum a microbotryan smut	Species	13 images	1 ident. refs
Microbotryum intermedium Small Scabious Dark Smut	Species		1 ident. refs
Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae White Campion Anther Smut	Species	18 images
Microbotryum majus Spanish Catchfly Anther Smut	Species	4 images
Microbotryum marginale Bistort Silver Rust	Species	32 images
Microbotryum scabiosae Field Scabious Pale Smut	Species		1 ident. refs
Microbotryum silenes-dioicae Red Campion Anther-smut	Species	15 images	1 ident. refs
Microbotryum silenes-inflatae Bladder Campion Anther Smut	Species	12 images
Microbotryum silybum	Species		1 ident. refs
Microbotryum stellariae Chickweed Anther Smut	Species	10 images
Microbotryum succisae Small Scabious Pale Smut	Species		1 ident. refs
Microbotryum tragopogonis-pratensis Goatsbeard Smut	Species	17 images
Microbotryum violaceum Nottingham Catchfly Anther Smut	Species	16 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Microbotryum (anther and capitulum smuts)
Family	MICROBOTRYACEAE (a family of microbotryan smuts)
Order	MICROBOTRYALES (microbotryan smuts)
Class	PUCCINIOMYCETES (rust fungi etc)
Subphylum	PUCCINIOMYCOTINA (rust fungi etc)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

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

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Lutz, M., Piatek, M., Kemler, M., Chlebicki, A. & Oberwinkler, F.	2008	Anther smuts of Caryophyllaceae: Molecular analyses reveal further new species	Mycol. Res. Vol 112 (11): 1280-1296.
Spooner, B.M. & Legon, N.W.	2006	Additions and amendments to the list of British smut fungi	Mycologist 20 (3): 90-96.
Vánky, K. & Berner, D.	2003	Microbotryum silybum sp.nov. (Microbotryales)	Mycotaxon Vol 85: 307-311.
Waller, J.M. & Mordue, J.E.M.	1983	Ustilago violacea	CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria No. 750.

Microbotryum (anther and capitulum smuts) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MICROBOTRYALES
(microbotryan smuts)

PUCCINIOMYCETES
(rust fungi etc)

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 Microbotryum (anther and capitulum smuts)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 67 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Microbotryum (anther and capitulum smuts)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Microbotryum is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)