Chytridiales

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Chytridiales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Chytridiales
Cohn[1]
Type species
Chytridium spp.
A. Braun, 1851

Fungi of the order Chytridiales, like other members of its phylum, may either have a monocentric thallus or be polycentric rhizomycelial. It may not be monophyletic as Polychytrium and Chytriomyces angularis, along with genera closely related to them, may not belong.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cohn, F. (1879). "Ueber ein Thallophytensystem". Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Geselschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau 57: 279. 
  2. ^ Hibbett, D.S., et al. (Mar 2007). "A higher level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi". Mycological Research 111 (5): 509–547. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004. 
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