{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Waitea | authority = Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot (1962) | type_species = ''Waitea circinata'' | type_species_authority = Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot (1962) | synonyms = ''Chrysorhiza'' <small> T.F. Andersen & Stalpers (1996)</small><br /> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Waitea agrostidis'' J.A. Crouch & Cubeta (2021)<br /> ''Waitea arvalis'' (Burds.) Ghobad-Nejhad (2020)<br /> ''Waitea guianensis'' G. Gruhn & Ghobad-Nejhad (2020)<br /> ''Waitea oryzae'' J.A. Crouch & Cubeta (2021)<br /> ''Waitea prodiga'' J.A. Crouch & Cubeta (2021)<br /> ''Waitea zeae'' (Voorhees) J.A. Crouch & Cubeta (2021)<br /> }}
'''''Waitea''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid, thin, effused, and web-like, but species are more frequently encountered in their similar but sterile anamorphic states. Several species are plant pathogens, causing commercially significant damage to cereal crops and amenity turf grass.<ref name="Roberts1999"/><ref name=Stalpers2021/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Roberts1999">{{cite book |title=Rhizoctonia-forming fungi |last=Roberts P. |year=1999 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens |location=Kew |isbn=1-900347-69-5 }}</ref>
<ref name=Stalpers2021>{{cite journal |author=Stalpers, J.A. |author2=Redhead, S.A. |author3=May, T.W. |display-authors=etal |title=Competing sexual-asexual generic names in Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota) with recommendations for use |journal=IMA Fungus |year=2021 |volume=12 |issue=22 |page=3 |pmid=34380577| doi=10.1186/s43008-021-00061-3| pmc=8359032 |doi-access=free }}</ref> }}
==External links== *{{Index Fungorum|18745}}
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Category:Corticiales Category:Agaricomycetes genera
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