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Allomyces

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Blastocladiomycetes

Family
  
Blastocladiaceae

Division
  
Blastocladiomycota

Order
  
Blastocladiales

Rank
  
genus

Allomyces Introduction to the Chytridiomycota

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Blastocladiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Chytridiomycetes, Blastocladiella, Chytridiales

Allomyces


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.

Contents

Allomyces Allomyces arbusculus Aquatic fungus

Allomyces zoospores in resistant sporangium


Species

Allomyces kingdom fungi

  • Allomyces anomalus R.Emers. 1941
  • Allomyces arbusculus E.J.Butler 1911
  • Allomyces catenoides Sparrow 1964
  • Allomyces cystogenus R.Emers. 1941
  • Allomyces javanicus Kniep 1929
  • Allomyces macrogynus (R.Emers.) R.Emers. & C.M.Wilson 1954
  • Allomyces moniliformis Coker & Braxton 1926
  • Allomyces neomoniliformis Indoh 1940
  • Allomyces reticulatus R. Emers. & J.A.Robertson 1974
  • Allomyces strangulata Minden 1916

    • Dichotomously branched thallus of Allomyces sp. At the ends of the branches are two to three orange-brown sporangia stacked on top of each other. Each sporangium has two discharge papillae. The sporangia at the top of the stacks have apical discharge papillae. The sporangia on the bottom of the stacks have lateral discharge papillae.
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    References

    Allomyces Wikipedia
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