Ceraceosorales

Ceraceosorales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Subdivision: Ustilaginomycotina
Class: Exobasidiomycetes
Order: Ceraceosorales
Begerow, M.Stoll & R.Bauer (2006)
Family: Ceraceosoraceae
Denchev & R.T. Moore (2009)
Genus: Ceraceosorus
B.K.Bakshi (1976)
Type species
Ceraceosorus bombacis
(B.K.Bashi) B.K.Bashi (1976)

The Ceraceosorales are an order of smut fungi in the class Exobasidiomycetes. It is a monotypic order, consisting of a single family, the Ceraceosoraceae, which in turn contain a single monotypic genus, Ceraceosorus. C. bombacis is a fungus that infects the tree Bombax ceiba in India. This economically important tree is used as lumber.[1] Ceraceosorales was circumscribed in 2006;[2] the family Ceraceosoraceae was validated in 2009.[3] C. bombacis was originally described as Dicellomyces bombacis in 1973, but B.K. Bakshi transferred it to the newly described Ceraceosorus three years later.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Cunningham JL, Bakshi BK, Lemtz PL, Gilliam MS. (1976). "Two new genera of leaf-parasitic fungi (Basidiomycetidae: Brachybasidiaceae)". Mycologia 68: 640–54. doi:10.2307/3758985.
  2. Begerow D. (2006). "A phylogenetic hypothesis of Ustilaginomycotina based on multiple gene analyses and morphological data". Mycologia 98 (6): 906–16. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.906. PMID 17486967.
  3. Denchev CM, Moore RT. (2009). "Validation of Malasseziaceae and Ceraceosoraceae (Exobasidiomycetes)". Mycotaxon 110: 379–83. doi:10.5248/110.379.

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