NAME Guizhounema
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Chytridiomycetes?, Chytridiales?
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Guizhounema Mu Xinan 1977, p. 153.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: (English translation, l.c., p. 158): Mycelium tube-shaped, without septa, straight or gently curving, bifurcating either once or not. Hypha with intercalary swelling, containing variously shaped spores with nodular protuberances.

Preserved in cells of [marine] Permocalculus and Gymnocodium, and likely belonging to parasitical phycomycetous fungi.

Monotypic.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Mu X. 1977. Upper Permian fossil fungi from Anshun of Guizhou; Acta Palaeontologia Sinica, v. 16, p. 151-158.
K&J REMARKS Due to time restraints, Kalgutkar and Jansonius (2000) were unable to have the Chinese description of the type species translated into English. Interested readers may refer to the original paper.

From the figures (pl. 1, figs. 1-7) it appears likely that the host filaments are infected with resting spores of Chytridiales parasitic on algae. Parasitic chytrids can cause hypertrophy in infected areas, much as the intercalary swelling in the hyphal region shown here.
TYPE TYPE: Guizhounema endosporicum Mu Xinan 1977, p. 153, pl. 1, fig. 1.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Guizhounema;
SERIAL NUMBER 663
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.