Biology:Synchytriaceae

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Short description: Family of fungi

Synchytriaceae
Synchytrium on Erodium cicutarium.jpg
Synchytrium (prob. S. papillatum) infection of Erodium cicutarium at Lookout Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Scientific classification
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Synchytriales
Family:
Synchytriaceae

J.Schröt. (1892)
Type genus
Synchytrium
de Bary & Woronin (1865)
Genera

Carpenterophlyctis
Endodesmidium
Johnkarlingia
Micromyces
Synchytrium

Synchytriaceae is a chytrid fungus family in the division Chytridiomycota. The family was described by German mycologist Joseph Schröter in 1892. The type genus, Synchytrium, contains about 200 species of fungi that are parasitic on flowering plants, ferns, mosses, and algae. Synchytrium endobioticum causes potato wart disease, an economically important disease of cultivated potato.[1]

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Wikidata ☰ Q10687374 entry