Melanotaenium

The Melanotaenium is a genus of smut fungi in the family Melanotaeniaceae.

It includes species such as smut fungus Melanotaenium cingens which was found parasitizing Linaria genistifolia  (Plantaginaceaefamily) on Chornomorsky (Tendra Island, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in 2007.

Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;


 * Melanotaenium adoxae
 * Melanotaenium antirrhini
 * Melanotaenium apludae
 * Melanotaenium arthraxonis
 * Melanotaenium arundinellae
 * Melanotaenium byzovae
 * Melanotaenium cingens
 * Melanotaenium dimeriae
 * Melanotaenium echinochloae
 * Melanotaenium endogenum
 * Melanotaenium eragrostidis
 * Melanotaenium euphorbiae
 * Melanotaenium gunnerae
 * Melanotaenium hypogaeum
 * Melanotaenium jaapii
 * Melanotaenium metzii
 * Melanotaenium spermacoces
 * Melanotaenium tochinaianum
 * Melanotaenium tuberculatae
 * Melanotaenium urochloae