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 sp.10 50 x 48 μm Saitama, 1999	Oedogonium sp.10 48-63 x 48 μm Saitama, 2000	Oedogonium sp.10' x 49 μm Mishima Shizuoka, 2001	Oedogonium sp.10' x 44 μm Hanyu Saitama, 2003
Oedogonium sp.10' x 44 μm Ishinazaka Furukawa Miyagi, 2003

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