Laurobasidium

Laurobasidium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Exobasidiomycetes
Order: Exobasidiales
Family: Exobasidiaceae
Genus: Laurobasidium
Jülich
Type species
Laurobasidium lauri
(Geyl.) Jülich

Laurobasidium is a genus of fungi in the Exobasidiaceae family. The genus contains two species. One is Laurobasidium lauri, found in Europe and described by W. Jülich in 1982, and another is L. hachijoense, found in Hachijō-jima, Japan and described in 1985.

Laurobasidium lauri grows solely on laurel (genus Laurus), Laurus novocanariensis on Madeira and the Canary Islands and Laurus nobilis on the western Iberian Peninsula. L. hachijoense grows solely on the Japanese cinnamon, Cinnamomum japonicum.

References

  1. ↑ Jülich, W. (1982). "On Exobasidium lauri". International Journal of Mycology and Lichenology. 1 (1): 117–20.
  2. ↑ Exobasidium hachijoense Y. Otani, Kakish. & Iijima, 1985, GBIF
  3. ↑ Thomas, Peter A.; Packham, John R. (2007). Ecology of woodlands and forests : description, dynamics and diversity. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 32. ISBN 978-0521542319.
  4. ↑ Laurobasidium hachijoense, comb. nov. (Cryptobasidiaceae) causing aerialroot-like galls on Cinnamomum japonicum in Japan, Phytotaxa