Allomyces

Allomyces
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Blastocladiomycota
Class: Blastocladiomycetes
Order: Blastocladiales
Family: Blastocladiaceae
Genus: Allomyces
E.J.Butler (1911)
Type species
Allomyces arbusculus
E.J.Butler (1911)
Synonyms[1]
  • Septocladia Coker & F.A.Grant (1922)

Allomyces is a genus of chytrid fungi in the family Blastocladiaceae. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Edwin John Butler in 1911. Species in the genus have a polycentric thallus and reproduce asexually by zoospores that have a whiplash-like flagella. They are mostly isolated from soils in tropical countries, commonly in ponds, rice fields, and slow-moving rivers.[2]

Species

References

  1. "Synonymy: Allomyces E.J. Butler, Ann. Bot., Lond. 25: 1027 (1911)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  2. Sharma PD. (2005). Fungi and Allied Organisms. Alpha Science International. pp. 145–6. ISBN 978-1-84265-277-0.

External links

Allomyces in Index Fungorum


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