[2] The haustoria of E. camelliae are projections into host cells walls with slender, branched, fingerlike lobes.

The haustoria contain inclusion bodies which appear in the extracellular space between the lobe’s plasma membrane and cell wall.

These inclusion bodies give rise to the haustorial cap which acts as a barrier between the lobes and the hyphae.

This mechanism is unique to E. camelliae, other species in the genus expose their basidia by growing their hymenium through the epidermis and cuticle of the host cells.

The infected fruits have swollen tissue and are covered in a white colored hymenium when the exocarp sloughs off.

The Cladiosporium grow on top of the exposed basidia, lysing the cells and inducing the release of their contents.