Cylindrobasidium laeve

Cylindrobasidium is a species of fungus in the family Physalacriaceae.

Cylindrobasidium laeve
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Physalacriaceae
Genus:	Cylindrobasidium
Species:	C. laeve
Binomial name
Cylindrobasidium laeve (Pers.) Chamuris, 1984[1]
Synonyms[2]
Athelia pellicularis (P. Karst.) Donk, 1957 Cladoderris minima Berk. & Broome, 1878 Corticium confluens var. subcalceum P. Karst., 1888 Corticium confluens var. triviale P. Karst., 1888 Corticium laeve Pers., 1794 Corticium laeve f. cucullatum Bourdot & Galzin, 1928 Corticium laeve f. pallida P. Karst. Corticium laeve subsp. pelliculare P. Karst., 1889 Corticium laeve var. subcalceum (P. Karst.) P. Karst., 1892 Corticium laeve var. triviale (P. Karst.) P. Karst., 1892 Corticium pelliculare (P. Karst.) P. Karst., 1889 Cylindrobasidium evolvens var. cucullatum (Bourdot & Galzin) Hjortstam & Ryvarden, 1984 Hypochnus laevis (Pers.) Bonord., 1851 Kneiffia laevis (Pers.) Bres., 1903 Stereum minimum (Berk. & Broome) Lloyd, 1913 Terana laevis (Pers.) Kuntze, 1891 Thelephora laevis (Pers.) Pers., 1801 Thelephora laevis Ehrh. ex Willd., 1787

A product which contains Cylindrobasidium laeve as the active ingredient can be used as a mycoherbicide to control Acacia mearnsii (black wattle) in South Africa.^[3]

Taxonomy

Initially described by Persoon in 1794 as Corticium laeve, the modern Index Fungorum name was given in 1984 by George Peter Chamuris.^[4]

In Europe

It is very common in Poland, usually found on various types of forests, bushes, parks, gardens, roadsides, trunks and branches of deciduous trees. It was found on the following species and types of trees: maples, chestnut tree, alder, silver birch, hornbeam, hazel, hawthorn, beech, hairy ash, apple, black poplar, plum tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, willow, and lime. It occurs rarely on conifers.^[5]

Gallery

• Evidence of C. laeve
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