Moniliopsis oryzae Ryker & Gooch ex R.T. Moore (1987) nom.

Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid, thin, effused, and web-like, but the fungus is more frequently encountered in its similar but sterile anamorphic state.

Waitea oryzae is best known as a plant pathogen, causing commercially significant leaf and sheath spots of rice and other cereals.

Molecular research has, however, shown that Waitea circinata is part of a complex of at least four genetically distinct taxa, each causing visibly different diseases.

[1] These taxa were initially treated (invalidly) as varieties of W. circinata, but have now been validly described as separate species.