Fungalpedia – Note 503, Catenomycetales

 

Catenomycetales Doweld

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Blastocladiomycota.

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Classification: Blastocladiales, Incertae sedis, Blastocladiomycetes, Incertae sedis, Blastocladiomycota, Fungi

Catenomycetales was introduced by Doweld (2014). The order is characterized by a unique morphology with polycentric to rarely monocentric thalli, diffusely organized, branched or unbranched, septate, tubular isthmuses between the sporangia, and numerous fine sterile rhizoids with intercalary zoosporangia. Sporangia with strongly developed endooperculal discharge tubes Zoospores are spherical and have multiple golden lipid globules and are posteriorly uniflagellate (Doweld 2014). 

Type genus: Catenomyces A.M. Hanson 1944

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Catenomycetales

 

Reference

Doweld AB. 2014 – Nomenclatural novelties. Index Fungorum 81, 1-1.

 

Entry by

Premarathne BM, National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Hantana, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 9 December 2024