Lobosporangium is a fungal genus in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota.[1] The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Lobosporangium transversale, found in the US and Mexico.[2]
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| Electromicrograph of Lobosporangium transversalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Mucoromycota |
| Class: | Mortierellomycetes |
| Order: | Mortierellales |
| Family: | Mortierellaceae |
| Genus: | Lobosporangium M.Blackw. & Benny (2004) |
| Species: | L. transversale
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| Binomial name | |
| Lobosporangium transversale (Malloch) M.Blackw. & Benny (2004)
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References
edit- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ^ Benny GL, Blackwell M (2004). "Lobosporangium, a new name for Echinosporangium Malloch, and Gamsiella, a new genus for Mortierella multidivaricata". Mycologia. 96 (1): 143–9. doi:10.2307/3761995. JSTOR 3761995. PMID 21148836.
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