Cladochytriales is an
order of
chytrid fungi.
It is the only order in the monotypic class Cladochytriomycetes.
The order was described in 2009 to accommodate a
monophyletic clade containing many genera of chytrid fungi often observed growing over decaying plant tissue and other
cellulosic
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is an important structural component of the primary cell wa ...
substrates from aquatic habitats and humid soils.
Taxonomy
The 2022 taxonomy of fungi places 5 families and 3
uncertain genera in Cladochytriales:
*Family
Catenochytridiaceae
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Catenochytridium''
*Family
Cladochytriaceae
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Cladochytrium
''Cladochytrium'' is a genus of fungi. It is the type genus of the family Cladochytriaceae.
; Names brought to synonymy:
* ''Cladochytrium alfalfae'', a synonym for '' Physoderma alfalfae'', a plant pathogen that causes crown wart of alfalfa
* ...
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*Family
Endochytriaceae
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Diplophlyctis''
**''
Endochytrium''
*Family
Nowakowskiellaceae
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Nowakowskiella
''Nowakowskiella'' is the sole genus of fungi in the family ''Nowakowskiellaceae''. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Joseph Schröter in 1897, while the family was originally circumscribed by Frederick Kroeber Sparrow in 1942, a ...
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*Family
Septochytriaceae
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Septochytrium''
*''incertae sedis''
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Allochytrium'' (=''Allochytridium'' )
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Cylindrochytridium''
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Nephrochytrium''
References
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Chytridiomycota
Fungus orders