Chytridium is a genus of fungi in the family Chytridiaceae.

Chytridium
Chytridium olla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Chytridiomycota
Class: Chytridiomycetes
Order: Chytridiales
Family: Chytridiaceae
Genus: Chytridium
A.Braun, 1851[1]
Species

Many, including:

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

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  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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