Rhizophydium Chitinophilum

Abstract

SUMMARY Rhizophydium chitinophilum is a new chitinophilic chytrid which was isolated from soil from Van Cortlandt Park, New York, N. Y. This species is characterized by large, hyaline sporangia of spherical, oval, or pyriform shape, by spherical zoospores, and by smooth, brown, coarsely granular resting spores, and appears to be limited in occurrence to chitinous substrata.