Ceratobasidium cornigerum

Ceratobasidium cornigerum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Cantharellales
Family: Ceratobasidiaceae
Genus: Ceratobasidium
Species:
C. cornigerum
Binomial name
Ceratobasidium cornigerum
(Bourdot) D.P. Rogers (1935)
Synonyms

Corticium gramineum Ikata & T. Matsuura (1910) sensu auct.
Rhizoctonia goodyerae-repentis Costantin & L.M. Dufour (1920) sensu auct.
Corticium cornigerum Bourdot (1922)
Corticium pervagum Petch (1925)
Corticium invisum Petch (1925)
Rhizoctonia endophytica H.K. Saksena & Vaartaja (1960) (invalid name)
Rhizoctonia candida W. Yamam. (1962) sensu auct. (invalid name)
Rhizoctonia fragariae S.S. Husain & W.E. McKeen (1963) (invalid name)
Rhizoctonia cerealis E.P. Hoeven (1977) (invalid name)
Ceratobasidium fragariae Kohmoto, N. Maek., Ogihara & S. Nishim. (1981) (invalid name)
Ceratobasidium cereale D.I. Murray & Burpee (1984)
Ceratobasidium gramineum (Ikata & T. Matsuura) Oniki, Ogoshi & T. Araki (1986) sensu auct.
Ceratorhiza goodyerae-repentis (Costantin & L.M. Dufour) R.T. Moore (1987) sensu auct.
Ceratorhiza fragariae (S.S. Husain & W.E. McKeen) R.T. Moore (1987) (invalid name)
Ceratobasidium lantanae-camarae H.C. Evans, R.W. Barreto & C.A. Ellison (1995)

Ceratobasidium cornigerum is a species of fungus in the order Cantharellales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are thin, spread on the substrate out like a film (effused) and web-like. An anamorphic state is frequently obtained when isolates are cultured. Ceratobasidium cornigerum is saprotrophic, but is also a facultative plant pathogen, causing a number of economically important crop diseases, and an orchid endomycorrhizal associate. The species is genetically diverse and is sometimes treated as a complex of closely related taxa. DNA research shows the species (or species complex) actually belongs within the genus Rhizoctonia.

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