HyperDic: order_peronosporales

English > 1 sense of the expression order Peronosporales:
NOUNplantorder Peronosporales, Peronosporalesorder of chiefly parasitic lower fungi
English > order Peronosporales: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningOrder of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae.
SynonymPeronosporales
Member ofOomycetes, class Oomycetesnonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores
MembersAlbuginaceae, family Albuginaceaefungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants
Peronosporaceae, family PeronosporaceaeParasitic fungi
Pythiaceae, family Pythiaceaefungi having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores
Broaderfungus orderThe order of fungi
CatalanPeronosporals

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