Olpidium

Olpidium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	incertae sedis
Class:	incertae sedis
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Olpidiaceae
Genus:	Olpidium; (A.Braun) J.Schröt.
Type species
	Olpidium endogenum; (A. Br.) Schroet.
Synonyms
	Chytridium (Olpidium) Braun 1856; Asterocystis de Wildeman 1893 non Gobi 1879; Cyphidium Magnus 1875; Diplochytridium Karling 1971; Diplochytrium Tomaschek 1878; Endolpidium de Wildeman 1894; Olpidiaster Pascher 1917 non Saccas 1954; Olpidiella Lagerheim 1888;

Olpidium is a fungal genus in the family Olpidiaceae. Members of Olpidium are zoosporic pathogens of plants, animals, fungi, and oomycetes.^[3]^[4]

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^ Fitzpatrick, Harry Morton (1930). The Lower Fungi: Phycomyetes. McGraw-Hill Book Company.
^ Sparrow F.K. (1060). Aquatic Phycomycetes (second ed.). The University of Michigan Press.