Pythium

Pythium Pringsh., Jb. wiss. Bot. 1: 304 (1858) Background Pythium is the largest and most comprehensively studied genus in Pythiaceae sensu lato, order Peronosporales sensu lato, class Peronosporomycetes, phylum Oomycota, and kingdom Straminipila (Beakes et al. 2014). Pringsheim (1858) described the genus. However, the initial classification of...