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Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928

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Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler, Phytopath. 18 874 (1928)
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Drechsler
Drechsler
Drechsler, C.E. 1928: Pythium arrhenomanes n. sp., a parasite causing maize root rot. Phytopathology 18(10): 873-875.
1928
874
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Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
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Pythium arrhenomanes

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Chromista
Oomycota
Oomycetes
Peronosporales
Pythiaceae
Pythium
arrhenomanes

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Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928

Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Colonies on corn meal agar submerged, no aerial mycelium, main hyphae up to 6 μm wide, with sickle-shaped, often catenate appressoria. Sporangia consisting of inflated, lobulate filaments. Oogonia mostly terminal, globose to subglobose, 29–34 μm in diameter, smooth. Antheridia often 15–20 per oogonium, diclinous. Oospores plerotic or nearly so, 22–33 μm in diameter.
Distribution: Not known.; 1st Record: Robertson (1980).
Significance: Isolated from apple roots (Robertson 1980). An important pathogen of graminaceous plants overseas, but not in New Zealand.; Host(s): Malus ×domestica.

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Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler (1928)
Drechsler, C.E. (1928)
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler (1928)
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler (1928)
Pennycook, S.R. (1989)
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler (1928)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler (1928)
Robertson, G.I. (1980)

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Pythium arrhenomanes Drechsler 1928
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