Phycomycetes is an obsolete polyphyletic taxon for certain fungi with nonseptate hyphae. It is used in the Engler system.
Phycomycetes is an obsolete polyphyletic taxon for certain fungi with nonseptate hyphae. It is used in the Engler system.
The class Phycomycetes has been abolished and in its place exists Zygomycetes, Chytridiomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes, Hyphochytridiomycetes, Trichomycetes (including Harpellales, Asellariales, Eccrinales and Amoebidiales) and Oomycetes. Still, 'Phycomycetes' can be used to refer to all the above-mentioned classes as a whole.
The members of this group are found in aquatic habitats and on decaying wood in moist and damp places or as obligate parasites on plants. The mycelium is aseptate and coenocytic. Asexual reproduction by zoospore or by aplanospore. A zygospore is formed by the fusion of two gametes. Examples are Mucor, Rhizopus, Albugo, Saprolegnia, Phythinum.
[
"Ecology",
"Genetics",
"Botany",
"Horticulture",
"Inoculation",
"Gigaspora gigantea",
"Zoophagus insidians",
"Saprolegnia ferax",
"Zoopagaceae",
"Dimargaris",
"Rhizidiomyces apophysatus",
"Phycomyces blakesleeanus",
"Achlya intricata",
"Pythium coloratum",
"Glomus fasciculatum",
"Pythium intermedium",
"Pythium mamillatum",
"Pythium violae",
"Pythium tracheiphilum",
"Peronosclerospora philippinensis",
"Pythium vexans",
"Plasmopara lactucae-radicis",
"Achlya ambisexualis",
"Phytophthora fragariae",
"Basidiobolus haptosporus",
"Phytophthora clandestina",
"Oospore formation",
"Phytophthora medicaginis",
"Glomus coronatum",
"Pythium sulcatum",
"Albugo occidentalis",
"Pythium arrhenomanes",
"Aphanomyces euteiches",
"Erynia radicans",
"Blastocladia",
"Entomophaga aulicae",
"Pythium acanthicum",
"Glomus monosporum",
"Glomus macrocarpum",
"Peronospora viciae",
"Pythium sylvaticum",
"Pythium periplocum",
"Endogonales",
"Gigaspora decipiens",
"Peronosclerospora sacchari",
"Leptomitales",
"Phytophthora citricola",
"Phytophthora citrophthora",
"Phytophthora gonapodyides",
"Monoblepharella",
"Lagenidium giganteum",
"Pythium paddicum",
"Pythium nunn",
"Phytophthora quercina",
"Pythium dissotocum",
"Phytophthora cryptogea",
"Pythium torulosum",
"Neozygites parvispora",
"Pythium spinosum",
"Pythium paroecandrum",
"Phytophthora megasperma",
"Pachymetra chaunorhiza"
]
