phycomycetes
藻菌植物
Phy·co·my·ce·tes n. pl. Bot. A large, important class of parasitic or saprophytic fungi, the algal or algalike fungi. The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much-branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms. -- Phy*co*my*ce*tous a.
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Phycomycetes
n : a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike
organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the
Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division
Eumycota; a category not used in all systems [syn: Phycomycetes
group]