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Genus of fungi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oidium is a genus of Deuteromycetes, where traditionally most anamorphs of the order Erysiphales are included. Most of them are plant pathogens causing different forms of powdery mildew, for example:
Oidium | |
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Spores of the Oidium anamorph of Microsphaera penicillata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Leotiomycetes |
Order: | Erysiphales |
Family: | Erysiphaceae |
Genus: | Oidium Link (1824) |
Type species | |
Oidium monilioides (Nees) Link (1824) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Oidium albicans has been a parallel name of the yeast Candida albicans (not related to the powdery mildew).
Some other species of medical importance previously classified as Oidium include:
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