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| Common names | laurel wilt disease |
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| Causal agents | Raffaelea lauricola |
| Hosts | laurel family |
| Vectors | Xyleborus glabratus |
| EPPO Code | RAFFLA |
| Laurel wilt | |
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| R. lauricola on Persea palustris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Ophiostomatales |
| Family: | Ophiostomataceae |
| Genus: | Raffaelea |
| Species: | R. lauricola
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| Binomial name | |
| Raffaelea lauricola T.C. Harr., Fraedrich & Aghayeva
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Laurel wilt, also called laurel wilt disease, is a vascular disease that is caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola,[1] which is transmitted by the invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus. The disease affects and kills members of the laurel family. The avocado is perhaps the most commercially valuable plant affected by laurel wilt.
- ^ Harrington, TC; Fraedrich, SW; and Aghayeva, DN. 2008, Raffaelea lauricola, a new ambrosia beetle symbiont and pathogen on the Lauraceae. Mycotaxon. 104: 399 - 404.