Waitea circinata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Corticiales |
Family: | Corticiaceae |
Genus: | Waitea |
Species: | W. circinata
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Binomial name | |
Waitea circinata Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot (1962)
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Waitea circinata is a species of fungus in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid, thin, effused, and web-like, but the fungus is more frequently encountered in its similar but sterile anamorphic state. Waitea circinata is best known as a plant pathogen, causing commercially significant damage (brown ring patch) to amenity turf grass.