Diasporangium
| Diasporangium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Oomycota |
| Order: | Peronosporales |
| Family: | Pythiaceae |
| Genus: | Diasporangium , 1936 |
| Species: | D. jonesianum
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| Binomial name | |
| Diasporangium jonesianum Höhnk, 1936
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Diasporangium is a genus of water moulds. It contains the single species Diasporangium jonesianum, described in 1936 by German mycologist . Known from the United States and Germany, where it grows in soil, D. jonesianum can cause root rot in various plants. It has a spherical oogonium up to 25 µm in diameter, with an oospore that almost fills the oogonium.[1]
References[]
- ^ Sparrow FJ. (1960). Aquatic Phycomycetes (2nd ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 1049.
Categories:
- Peronosporales
- Water mould genera
- Monotypic eukaryote genera