Laurobasidium

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Laurobasidium lauri.JPG

| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Basidiomycota

| classis = Exobasidiomycetes

| ordo = Exobasidiales

| familia = Exobasidiaceae

| genus = Laurobasidium

| genus_authority = Jülich

| type_species = Laurobasidium lauri

| type_species_authority = (Geyl.) Jülich

}}

Laurobasidium is a genus of fungi in the Exobasidiaceae family. The genus contains two species. One is Laurobasidium lauri, found in Europe and described by W. Jülich in 1982,{{cite journal |author=Jülich, W. |year=1982 |title=On Exobasidium lauri |journal=International Journal of Mycology and Lichenology |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=117–20}} and another is L. hachijoense, found in Hachijō-jima, Japan and described in 1985.[https://www.gbif.org/species/3371876/ Exobasidium hachijoense Y. Otani, Kakish. & Iijima, 1985], GBIF

Laurobasidium lauri grows solely on laurel (genus Laurus), Laurus novocanariensis on Madeira and the Canary Islands{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Peter A.|last2=Packham|first2=John R.|title=Ecology of woodlands and forests : description, dynamics and diversity|url=https://archive.org/details/ecologywoodlands00thom|url-access=limited|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press|location=Cambridge [u.a.]|isbn=978-0521542319|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ecologywoodlands00thom/page/n47 32]}} and Laurus nobilis on the western Iberian Peninsula. L. hachijoense grows solely on the Japanese cinnamon, Cinnamomum japonicum.[https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.303.1.11 Laurobasidium hachijoense, comb. nov. (Cryptobasidiaceae) causing aerialroot-like galls on Cinnamomum japonicum in Japan], Phytotaxa