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Completoria

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Entomophthorales

Rank
  
Genus

Subdivision
  
Entomophthoromycotina

Order
  
Entomophthorales

Family
  
Completoriaceae Humber (1989)

Similar
  
Entomophthoromycota, Basidiobolaceae, Coemansia, Zoophthora, Conidiobolus

Completoria is a fungal genus in the monotypic family Completoriaceae, of the order Entomophthorales. Completoria is itself monotypic, containing a single species, Completoria complens. The species is rare, known only from greenhouse cultures where it grows as an obligate intracellular parasite of fern gametophytes.

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Completoria Wikipedia