Ceraceosorales

The Ceraceosorales are an order of smut fungi in the class Exobasidiomycetes.

It is a monotypic order, consisting of a single family, the Ceraceosoraceae, which in turn contain a single monotypic genus, Ceraceosorus.

C. bombacis is a fungus that infects the tree Bombax ceiba in India.

[1] Ceraceosorales was circumscribed in 2006;[2] the family Ceraceosoraceae was validated in 2009.

Bakshi transferred it to the newly described Ceraceosorus three years later.