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Chytridium

Chytridium is a genus of fungi in the family Chytridiaceae.

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Chytridium
Chytridium olla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Chytridiales
Family: Chytridiaceae
Genus: Chytridium
A.Braun, 18511
Species

Many, including:

Chytridium is a genus of fungi in the family Chytridiaceae.

With the culture and characterization of Chytridium olla, the type species of the order, the limits of the Chytridiales were established.2

Names brought to synonymy
  • Chytridium (Olpidium) Braun 1856, a synonym for Olpidium
References

References

  1. Braun, A. (1851). Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur, insbesondere in der Lebens- und Bildungsgeschichte der Pflanze. Engelmann W, Leipzig (description page 198)
  2. Vélez, C.G.; Letcher, P.M.; Schultz, S.; Powell, M.J.; Churchill, P.F. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetic and zoospore ultrastructural analyses of Chytridium olla establish the limits of a monophyletic Chytridiales". Mycologia. 103 (1): 118–130. doi:10.3852/10-001. PMID 20943553. S2CID 36727986.
  • Karling JS. (1971). On Chytridium Braun, Diplochytridium n. g. and Canteria n. g. (Chytridiales). Archiv für Mikrobiologie. volume 76, pages 126–131, doi:10.1007/bf00411786
  • Alexander Braun, 1856: Über Chytridium, eine Gattung einzelliger Schmarotzergewächse auf Algen und Infusorien (On Chytridium, a genus of unicellular parasites on algae and infusoria)
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