 In plant parasitic taxa, the saprotrophic phase is normally the yeast while the infectious stage is hyphal.However, there are examples of animal and human parasites where the species are dimorphic but it is the yeast-like state that is infectious.The genus "Filobasidiella" forms basidia on hyphae but the main infectious stage is more commonly known by the anamorphic yeast name "Cryptococcus", e.g.