Multiple choice

Greenhouses are often used for growing flowers, vegetables, fruits and transplants. Which among the following fungi is an obligate intracellular parasite found only from greenhouse cultures?

  1. Completoria

  2. Carouxella

  3. Loma salmonae

  4. Saksenaea

  5. Harpella
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Explanation

Completoria is itself monotypic, containing a single species, Completoria complens. The species is rare, known only from greenhouse cultures where it grows as an obligate intracellular parasite of fern gametophytes.

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