flag smut fungus

Noun flag smut fungus has 1 sense

• flag smut fungus(n = noun.plant) - a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores;
is a kind of smut, smut fungus
is a member of genus urocystis, urocystis
has particulars: urocystis tritici, wheat flag smut