Definition of Order Chytridiales

1. Noun. Simple aquatic fungi mostly saprophytic but some parasitic on higher plants or animals or fresh water fungi; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes.

Exact synonyms: Chytridiales
Generic synonyms: Fungus Order
Group relationships: Chytridiomycetes, Class Chytridiomycetes
Member holonyms: Chytridiaceae, Family Chytridiaceae, Family Synchytriaceae, Synchytriaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Chytridiales

order Campanulales
order Caprimulgiformes
order Carnivora
order Caryophyllales
order Casuariiformes
order Casuarinales
order Caudata
order Cestida
order Cetacea
order Charadriiformes
order Charales
order Chelonethida
order Chelonia
order Chiroptera
order Chlorococcales
order Chytridiales (current term)
order Ciconiiformes
order Cilioflagellata
order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales
order Conodonta
order Conodontophorida
order Coraciiformes
order Cordaitales
order Corrodentia

Literary usage of Order Chytridiales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... by one or more yellowish or colorless subspherical bodies, 40—120 ft in diameter, probably sporangia of a fungus belonging to the order Chytridiales, ..."

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