Rhizoctonia
| Rhizoctonia | |
|---|---|
| Disease of cucumber caused by Rhizoctonia solani | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Cantharellales |
| Family: | Ceratobasidiaceae |
| Genus: | Rhizoctonia DC. (1815) |
| Type species | |
| Rhizoctonia solani J.G. Kühn (1858) | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Moniliopsis Ruhland (1908) | |
Rhizoctonia is a genus of fungi in the family Ceratobasidiaceae. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps (fruit bodies), but are most frequently found in their sterile, anamorph state. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but some are also facultative plant pathogens, causing commercially important crop diseases. Some are also endomycorrhizal associates of orchids. The genus name was formerly used to accommodate many superficially similar, but unrelated fungi.