Completoria is a fungal genus in the monotypic family Completoriaceae, of the order Entomophthorales. Completoria is itself monotypic, containing a single species, Completoria complens. The species is rare, known only from greenhouse cultures where it grows as an obligate intracellular parasite of fern gametophytes.[1]
Completoria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Entomophthoromycota |
Class: | Entomophthoromycetes |
Order: | Entomophthorales |
Family: | Completoriaceae Humber (1989)[1] |
Genus: | Completoria Lohde (1874) |
Species: | C. complens
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Binomial name | |
Completoria complens Lohde (1874)
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References
edit- ^ a b Humber RA. "Synopsis of a revised classification for the Entomophthorales (Zygomycotina)". Mycotaxon. 34 (2): 441–60 (see p. 453).