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Chlorophyceae: Oedogoniales: Oedogoniaceae

Oedocladium

Oedocladium 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: branching filaments; no spiny hairs; with rhizoids (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
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Oedocladium sp., vegetative cells μm long, μm diam., x 400, x 640, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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