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
Rhizoctonia amygdalispora Rhizoctonia anceps Rhizoctonia bicornis Rhizoctonia butinii Rhizoctonia fusispora Rhizoctonia globispora Rhizoctonia noxia Rhizoctonia obscura Rhizoctonia ochracea Rhizoctonia oryzae-sativae Rhizoctonia pseudocornigera Rhizoctonia sphaerospora Rhizoctonia sterigmatica Rhizoctonia stridii Rhizoctonia terrigena Rhizoctonia theobromae
Synonyms
Moniliopsis Ruhland (1908) Thanatephorus Donk (1956) Uthatobasidium Donk (1956) Koleroga Donk (1958) Cejpomyces Svrcek & Pouzar (1970) Oncobasidium Talbot & Keane (1971) Ypsilondium Donk (1972) Aquathanatephorus Tu & Kimbrough (1978) Ceratorhiza R.T. Moore (1987)

Rhizoctonia is a genus of fungi in the order Cantharellales. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps (fruit bodies), but are most frequently found in their sterile, anamorphic state. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but some are also facultative plant pathogens, causing commercially important crop diseases. Some are also endomycorrhizal associates of orchids.^[1] The genus name was formerly used to accommodate many superficially similar, but unrelated fungi.