Ceratobasidium ochroleucum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Cantharellales |
Family: | Ceratobasidiaceae |
Genus: | Ceratobasidium |
Species: | C. ochroleucum
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Binomial name | |
Ceratobasidium ochroleucum (F. Noack) Ginns & M.N.L. Lefebvre (1993)
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Synonyms | |
Hypochnopsis ochroleuca F. Noack (1898) |
Ceratobasidium ochroleucum is a species of fungus in the family Ceratobasidiaceae. Basidiocarps are effused and web-like and were originally described from Brazil, causing a thread blight of apple and quince trees.[1] The fungus was subsequently reported as a leaf disease on orchard crops in North America,[1] but since descriptions of Ceratobasidium orchroleucum vary considerably and no type specimen exists, its identity remains unclear.[2] Roberts (1999) considered it a "nomen dubium".