Ceratobasidium

Ceratobasidium
Ceratobasidium cornigerum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Cantharellales
Family:	Ceratobasidiaceae
Genus:	Ceratobasidium D.P. Rogers
Type species
Ceratobasidium calosporum D.P. Rogers
Species
Ceratobasidium albasitense Ceratobasidium angustisporum Ceratobasidium bulbillifaciens Ceratobasidium cereale Ceratobasidium chavesanum Ceratobasidium cornigerum Ceratobasidium niltonsouzanum Ceratobasidium papillatum Ceratobasidium ramicola Ceratobasidium ochroleucum Ceratobasidium setariae Ceratobasidium tradescantiae
Synonyms
Ceratorhiza R.T. Moore

Ceratobasidium is a genus of fungi in the order Cantharellales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are effused and the genus is sometimes grouped among the corticioid fungi, though species also retain features of the heterobasidiomycetes. Anamorphic forms were formerly referred to the genus Ceratorhiza, but this is now considered a synonym of Rhizoctonia. Ceratobasidium species, excluding the type, are also now considered synonymous with Rhizoctonia and some species have been transferred to the latter genus.^[1] Species are saprotrophic, but several are also facultative plant pathogens, causing a number of commercially important crop diseases. Some are also endomycorrhizal associates of orchids.