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 swelled at one end
Oedogonium sp.3 50 x 14 μm Japan, 1998	Oedogonium sp.3 x 14 μm Matsumoto Nagano, 2001	Oedogonium sp. ? x 14 μm Ueno Tokyo, 2001	Oedogonium sp. ? x 14 μm Sanda Hyogo, 2001
Oedogonium sp.3 40-60 x 14 μm Hamasaki Asaka Saitama, 2004

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