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Paleoblastocladiaceae
Family Paleoblastocladiaceae Doweld Index Fung., (71): 1. 5 Jan 2014
- Name
- Paleoblastocladiaceae
- Rank
- Family
- Authors (Pub.)
- Doweld A. B.
- Publication
- Nomenclatural novelties: Paleoblastocladiaceae Doweld, fam.nov. and Paleoblastocladiales Doweld, ord. nov. [2014/1]
- Journal
- Index Fungorum
- Issue
- 71
- Page number
- 1
- Year
- 2014
- Parent Taxon
- [Order] Paleoblastocladiales
- Type
- [Genus] Paleoblastocladia
- Diagnosis
- Thalli aggregated in tufts, each bipolar and unicellular, with basal system of intramatrical, branched rhizoids; extramatrical hyphae arising from large unbranched basal cell to form axile, isomorphic thalli, each producing different reproductive structures; hyphae sometimes curled, with several orders of dichotomous (occasionally polytomous) or sympodial branches; sympodial branches arising secondarily just below terminal reproductive structures; hyphae non-septate and occasionally constricted by slight ringlike thickenings, septum always formed where reproductive structures attached; sporothallus branching sympodially up to three times and bearing terminal, globose to bulb-shaped, solitary zoosporangia and thick-walled, globose resting sporangia with closely spaced reticulate pits; discharge papillae lacking. Zoospores ellipsoidal, with opaque inclusion.
