Laurobasidium
Laurobasidium is a genus of fungi in the Exobasidiaceae family. The genus contains two species. One is Laurobasidium lauri, found in Europe and described by W. Jülich in 1982,[1] and another is L. hachijoense, found in Hachijō-jima, Japan and described in 1985.[2]
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| Genus: | Laurobasidium Jülich |
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| Laurobasidium lauri (Geyl.) Jülich | |
L. lauri grows solely on laurel (genus Laurus), Laurus novocanariensis on Madeira and the Canary Islands[3] and Laurus nobilis on the western Iberian Peninsula. L. hachijoense grows solely on the Japanese cinnamon, Cinnamomum japonicum.[4]
References
- Jülich, W. (1982). "On Exobasidium lauri". International Journal of Mycology and Lichenology. 1 (1): 117–20.
- Exobasidium hachijoense Y. Otani, Kakish. & Iijima, 1985, GBIF
- Thomas, Peter A.; Packham, John R. (2007). Ecology of woodlands and forests : description, dynamics and diversity. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 32. ISBN 0521542316.
- Laurobasidium hachijoense, comb. nov. (Cryptobasidiaceae) causing aerialroot-like galls on Cinnamomum japonicum in Japan, Phytotaxa
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