Bulleribasidium
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Bulleribasidium is a genus of fungi in the family Bulleribasidiaceae. The genus currently contains some eleven species. The type species is a parasite of other fungi (Cladosporium sp.), its teleomorph having septate basidia and haustorial cells on its hyphae that connect to the host hyphae.[1] Most species are, however, only known from their yeast states.[2]
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Bulleribasidium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Tremellomycetes |
Order: | Tremellales |
Family: | Bulleribasidiaceae |
Genus: | Bulleribasidium J.P. Samp., M. Weiss & R. Bauer (2002) |
Type species | |
Bulleribasidium oberjochense J.P. Samp., Gadanho, M. Weiss & R. Bauer (2002) |
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The genus name of Bulleribasidium is in honour of Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1874–1944), a British-Canadian mycologist.[3]