Pythium spinosum

Pythium spinosum is a plant pathogen infecting a wide variety of crops. Hosts observed to be infected include rice in Taiwan,^[1] Primula, Impatiens, soil in Florida,^[2] Cucumis melo in South Korea (as damping off),^[3] and soybeans in Arkansas USA,^[4] China,^[4] and Indiana USA.^[4]

Pythium spinosum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Oomycota
Order:	Peronosporales
Family:	Pythiaceae
Genus:	Pythium
Species:	P. spinosum
Binomial name
Pythium spinosum Sawada, (1926)