Cystobasidium fimetarium

Cystobasidium fimetarium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Cystobasidiomycetes
Order:	Cystobasidiales
Family:	Cystobasidiaceae
Genus:	Cystobasidium
Species:	C. fimetarium
Binomial name
	Cystobasidium fimetarium; (Schumach.) P. Roberts (1999)
Synonyms
	Tremella fimetaria Schum. (1803); Helicobasidium fimetarium (Schum.) Boud. (1887); Exobasidium fimetarium (Schum.) Lapl. (1894); Platygloea fimetaria (Schum.) Höhn. (1917); Achroomyces fimetaria (Schum.) Wojewoda (1977); Jola lasioboli Lagerh. (1898); Cystobasidium lasioboli (Lagerh.) Neuhoff (1924); Platygloea fimicola J. Schröt. (1889); Achroomyces fimicola (J. Schröt.) Mig. (1910)

Cystobasidium fimetarium is a species of fungus in the order Cystobasidiales. It is a fungal parasite forming small gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on various ascomycetous fungi (including Lasiobolus and Thelebolus spp) on dung. Microscopically, it has auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia producing basidiospores that germinate by budding off yeast cells. The species is known from Europe and North America.