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Chlorophyceae: Oedogoniales: Oedogoniaceae

Oedogonium sp.

Order & Family: Filamentous algae; cell division occurs near septum and adds "apical cap" (folded structure near the septum) ; cell body cylindrical, laterally straight or wavy or swell at one end of the cell body ("capitellate") in some species; chloroplasts reticulated with many pyrenoids; asexual reproduction by zoospore; sexual reproduction by fertilization by egg and sperm; monoecious or dioecious.
Genus: linear filament without branching (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Cell body laterally straight
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.
19-28 x 10 μm
Japan, 1998
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.
75 x 7 μm
Japan, 1998
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.
19-31 x 6 μm
Japan, 1998
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.
14-26 x 7-8 μm
Kisuge konuma
Shimogo
Fukushima, 2005
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Oedogonium
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