Laurobasidium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi
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Phylum: | Basidiomycota
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Class: | Exobasidiomycetes
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Order: | Exobasidiales
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Family: | Exobasidiaceae
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Genus: | Laurobasidium Jülich
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Type species | |
Laurobasidium lauri (Geyl.) Jülich
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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]
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]