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Diasporangium

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Diasporangium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Oomycota
Order: Peronosporales
Family: Pythiaceae
Genus: Diasporangium
Höhnk, 1936
Species:
D. jonesianum
Binomial name
Diasporangium jonesianum
Höhnk, 1936

Diasporangium is a genus of water moulds. It contains the single species Diasporangium jonesianum, described in 1936 by German mycologist Willy Höhnk. 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

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  1. ^ Sparrow FJ. (1960). Aquatic Phycomycetes (2nd ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 1049.