Pythium Pringsh.
(damping off fungi)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Pythium tracheiphilum a damping off fungus					Species			1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Pythium (damping off fungi)
Family	PYTHIACEAE (damping off and blight fungi)
Order	PERONOSPORALES (downy mildews and white rusts)
Class	PERONOSPOREA (a class of fungoid organisms)
Phylum	OOMYCOTA (a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi)
Kingdom	CHROMISTA (algae)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Pythium is also a member of:
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Oomycota)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Oomycota)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	van der Plaats-Niterink, J.	1981	Monograph of the genus Pythium	Stud. Mycol. Vol 21: 1-52.

Pythium (damping off fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PERONOSPORALES
(downy mildews and white rusts)

OOMYCOTA
(a group of mainly plant-parasitic fungi)

CHROMISTA
(algae)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pythium (damping off fungi)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Pythium (damping off fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Pythium is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)