Oidium (genus)

Oidium
Blumeria graminis, to which the type species of Oidium now belongs. Oidium monilioides is the only Oidium species to belong to Blumeria, the rest belong to other genera.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Erysiphaceae
Genus: Oidium
Link, 1824
Type species
Oidium monilioides
(Nees) Link, 1824

Oidium was an anamorphic genus of plant pathogenic fungi in the family Erysiphaceae (powdery mildews). Members of the genus were found on a very large variety of plant species across multiple families and distributed on every continent bar Antarctica.

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