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]

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

Laurobasidium 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]