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).
Similar Genus ->> Oedocladium
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