Cystobasidium
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| Cystobasidium | |
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| Cystobasidium fimetarium | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Cystobasidiomycetes |
| Order: | Cystobasidiales |
| Family: | Cystobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Cystobasidium (Lagerh.) Neuhoff (1924) |
| Type species | |
| Cystobasidium lasioboli (Lagerh.) Neuhoff (1924) | |
Cystobasidium is a genus of fungi in the order Cystobasidiales. The type species is a fungal parasite forming small gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on various ascomycetous fungi (including Lasiobolus and Thelebolus spp) on dung.[1] Microscopically, it has auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia producing basidiospores that germinate by budding off yeast cells. Other species are known only from their yeast states.[2] The yeasts Cystobasidium minutum and C. calyptogenae are rare but known human pathogens.[3][4]