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Salmacisia

Salmacisia is a genus of fungi in the Tilletiaceae family. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Salmacisia buchloƫana, first described as Tilletia buchloƫana in 1889, and renamed in 2008. Plants infected by the fungus undergo a phenomenon known as "parasitically induced hermaphroditism", whereby ovary development is induced in otherwise male plants. Because of the pistil-inducing effects of the fungus, the authors have named the species pistil smut; it is the only species in the Tilletiales order known to have hermaphroditic effects.