Ceraceosorales

Ceraceosorales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
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 an ornamental tree.[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]

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