A new species of Brevilegnia (Saprolegniales, Straminipila) from Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Steciow, Mónica Mirta

Brevilegnia insenadensis sp. nov. is described from litter (floating twigs, leaves, and roots) in a man-made, polluted channel near a petroleum refinery, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The species is illustrated and compared with other species of the genus; it can be identified by the preponderance of smooth or papillate oogonia, with a distinctive irregular inner wall, borne in bent or coiled oogonial stalks, which are terminal, lateral or of the intercalary position. The oogonia often are irregular in shape, and the oospheres mostly are immature. The single oospore is eccentric inside the great oogonia, and the species develops mainly diclinous antheridial branches and has fewer monoclinous and androgynous ones.

BUENOS Aires (Argentina); ARGENTINA; SAPROLEGNIALES; OOMYCETES; PHYCOMYCETES

Mycologia, 2003, Vol 95, Issue 5, p934

0027-5514

Academic Journal

10.2307/3762021