Blastocladia is a genus of aquatic fungi.

Blastocladia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Blastocladiomycota
Class: Blastocladiomycetes
Order: Blastocladiales
Family: Blastocladiaceae
Genus: Blastocladia
Reinsch (1877)
Type species
Blastocladia pringsheimii
Reinsch (1877)
Species

30 species

Description

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Blastocladia species have a thallus that consists of a single, branched basal cell or trunk with rhizoids at one end and sporangia at the other. They are not able to use oxygen, although its presence does not inhibit growth.[1]

Habitat

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Members of Blastocladia grow on submerged twigs and fruit.[1]

Taxonomy

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Blastocladia was circumscribed by German scientist Paul Friedrich Reinsch in 1877, who included a single species, Blastocladia pringsheimii.[2] Roland Thaxter added a second species, B. ramosa in 1896. He placed the genus provisionally in the Pythiaceae owing to its resemblance of its resting spores to the conidia of some members of the genus Pythium.[3] Joseph Schröter (1897) included it with the water mold family Leptomitaceae.[4]

Species

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As of December 2015, Index Fungorum accepts 30 species in Blastocladia:[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Blackwell M, Alexopoulos CJ, Mims CW (1996). Introductory Mycology. New York: Wiley. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-471-52229-4.
  2. ^ a b Reinsch PF. (1878). "Beobachtungen über einige neue Saprolegnieae, etc". Jahrbücher für Wissenschaftliche Botanik (in German). 11: 283–311.
  3. ^ a b Thaxter R. (1896). "New or peculiar aquatic Fungi. III. Blastocladia". Botanical Gazette. 21 (2): 45–52. doi:10.1086/327299.
  4. ^ Schröter (1897). Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. p. 108.
  5. ^ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 23rd December 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Das-Gupta SN, John R (1988). "A contribution to our knowledge of the genus Blastocladia". Indian Phytopathology. 41 (4): 521–547.
  7. ^ Steciow MM, Marano AV (2006). "Blastocladia bonaerensis (Blastocladiales, Chytridiomycetes), a new species from an Argentine channel". Mycotaxon. 97: 359–365.
  8. ^ a b c Kanouse BB. (1927). "A monographic study of special groups of the water molds. I. Blastocladiaceae". American Journal of Botany. 14 (6): 287–306. doi:10.2307/2435852. JSTOR 2435852.
  9. ^ a b Indoh H. (1940). "Studies on Japanese aquatic fungi. II. The Blastocladiaceae". Science Reports of the Tokyo Bunrika Daigaku. 4: 237–384 (see p. 352).
  10. ^ a b Minden MV. (1912). "Phycomyceten". Kryptogamen-Flora der Mark Brandenburg (in German). 5: 209–608 (see p. 606).
  11. ^ Barrett JT. (1912). "The development of Blastocladia strangulata, n. sp". Botanical Gazette. 54 (5): 353–371. doi:10.1086/330929. S2CID 84817035.
  12. ^ Sparrow FK Jr. (1932). "Observations on the aquatic fungi of Cold Spring Harbor". Mycologia. 24 (3): 283–302. doi:10.2307/3753872. JSTOR 3753872.
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