Exobasidiales
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Graphiola phoenicis cross section of sori (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Cesar Calderon, USDA APHIS PPQ
Source: IPM Images
Author(s): Cesar Calderon, USDA APHIS PPQ
Source: IPM Images
Exobasidiales
The Exobasidiales are an order of basidiomycetous plant pathogenic fungi which cause blisters or coloured galls. For example, Exobasidium vexans causes blister blight of tea in Asia. They do not produce teliospores and form a complex interaction structure with their host plants (Begerow et al., 2006).
The following genera and individual species are currently entered under this order:
