Rhizoclosmatium

Rhizoclosmatium is a genus of fungi classified in the family Chytriomycetaceae.[1] It was circumscribed by Danish mycologist Henning Eiler Petersen in 1903.[2] The genus contains four species.

Rhizoclosmatium
Rhizoclosmatium aurantiacum zoosporangium with characteristic orange coloration and apophysis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Chytridiomycota
Class:
Chytridiomycetes
Order:
Chytridiales
Family:
Chytriomycetaceae
Genus:
Rhizoclosmatium

Type species
Rhizoclosmatium globosum
H.E.Petersen (1909)
Species

R. aurantiacum
R. globosum
R. hyalinum
R. marinum

References
  1. Vélez CG, Letcher PM, Schultz S, Powell MJ, Churchill PF (2011). "Molecular phylogenetic and zoospore ultrastructural analyses of Chytridium olla establish the limits of a monophyletic Chytridiales". Mycologia. 103 (1): 118–30. doi:10.3852/10-001. PMID 20943553.
  2. Petersen HE. (1903). "Note sur les Phycomycètes observés dans les téguments vides des nymphes de Phryganées, avec description de tris espèces nouvelles de Chytridinées". Journal de Botanique (Morot) (in French). 17: 214–22.


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