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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.10
50 x 48 μm
Saitama, 1999

Oedogonium sp.10
48-63 x 48 μm
Saitama, 2000
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 49 μm
Mishima
Shizuoka, 2001
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 44 μm
Hanyu
Saitama, 2003
Oedogonium
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 44 μm
Ishinazaka
Furukawa
Miyagi, 2003
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Oedogonium
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