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Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858

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Pythium monospermum Pringsh., Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 1 288 (1858)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Anon

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Pringsh.
Pringsh.
Pringsheim, N. 1858: Beitrag für Morphologie und Systematik der Algen. Die Saprolegnieen. Jahrbücher für Wissenschaftliche Botanik 1: 284-306.
1858
288
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Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
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Pythium monospermum

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Chromista
Oomycota
Oomycetes
Peronosporales
Pythiaceae
Pythium
monospermum

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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 monospermum Pringsh. 1858

Type: Radicicolous Fungi; Description: Colonies on corn meal agar showing a radiate pattern, main hyphae up to 7 μm wide. Sporangia always filamentous, branched or unbranched, not inflated. Oogonia terminal or intercalary, globose, 14–16 μm in diameter, smooth. Antheridia 1–2 per oogonium, monoclinous and diclinous. Oospores plerotic.
Distribution: Auckland.; 1st Record: Robertson (1973a).
Significance: None. Very occasionally isolated from roots (Robertson 1973a).; Host(s): Juniperus chinensis, Prunus tomentosa.
Golubeva, O.G.; Stephenson, S.L. 2003: Zoosporic fungi from subantarctic Campbell Island. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41(2): 319-324.

Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858

Campbell Island: VOUCHER SPECIMEN: LE 222000. COLLECTION SITE: Stream 4.
DESCRIPTION: Hyphae 1.5-7 µm in diam. Sporangia elongated, often branched, 80-170 µm in diam., germinate producing zoospores. Cysts 5-8 µm in diam. Oogonia terminal, intercalary, lateral, spherical, 14-24 µm in diam., smooth-walled. Antheridia monoclinal or diclinal, 1-2 per oogonium, antheridial cell club-shaped, attached to the oogonium by its apex. Oospore pleurotic with a smooth wall, 1-2 µm thick.
COMMENTS: This species commonly occurs as a saprotroph on plant and animal debris in freshwater habitats and also can be found in soil. It has been recorded as a parasite of fish, reptiles and their eggs, aquatic insects, and other invertebrates. Pythium monospermum has been recorded from Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.

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Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Fowler, M.Eagles, H.A.; Wratt, G.S. (1985)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Golubeva, O.G.; Stephenson, S.L. (2003)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Pennycook, S.R. (1989)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Plaats-Niterink, AJ. van der (1981)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Pringsheim, N. (1858)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Robertson, G.I. (1973)
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. 1858
Pythium monospermum Pringsh. (1858)
Robertson, G.I. (1980)

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