The Ceraceosorales are an
order
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...
of
smut fungi
The smuts are multicellular fungus, fungi characterized by their large numbers of teliospores. The smuts get their name from a Germanic word for 'dirt' because of their dark, thick-walled, and dust-like teliospores. They are mostly Ustilaginomycet ...
in the class
Exobasidiomycetes
The Exobasidiomycetes are a class of fungi sometimes associated with the abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues known as galls. The class includes '' Exobasidium camelliae'' Shirai, the camellia leaf gall and '' Exobasidium vaccinii'' Erikss, the l ...
. It is a
monotypic
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order, consisting of a single
family
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, the Ceraceosoraceae, which in turn contain a single monotypic genus, ''Ceraceosorus''. ''C. bombacis'' is a fungus that infects the tree ''
Bombax ceiba
''Bombax ceiba'', like other trees of the genus ''Bombax'', is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of ...
'' in India. This economically important tree is used as an ornamental tree.
Ceraceosorales was circumscribed in 2006;
the family Ceraceosoraceae was validated in 2009.
''C. bombacis'' was originally described as ''Dicellomyces bombacis'' in 1973, but B.K. Bakshi transferred it to the newly described ''Ceraceosorus'' three years later.
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Ustilaginomycotina
Monotypic fungus orders
Taxa described in 2006
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