Fritschiella Iyengar, 1932

Holotype species: Fritschiella tuberosa M.O.P.Iyengar

Original publication and holotype designation: Iyengar, M.O.P. (1932). Fritschiella, a new terrestrial member of the Chaetophoraceae. New Phytologist 31(5): 329-335.

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Description: Plants filamentous and heterotrichous, consisting of colourless, rhizoidal filaments penetrating soil surface. Prostrate system of crowded, irregularly rounded, clusters of small cells with dense contents, and erect system of irregularly branched filaments of short cells below, more elongated cells above, and terminating in conical cells. Both cell types uninucleate, with parietal chloroplast and several pyrenoids. Reproduction confined to cells of prostate system. Zoospores of 3 types quadriflagellate macro- and microzoospores, and biflagellate microzoospores. Sexual reproduction isogamous and gametes biflagellate. Fritschiella terrestrial, more or less gregarious on moist soil or silt including drying rain-water puddles; also reported from hair of sloths. Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical parts of North Africa and Asia. Ultrastructural investigations reveal plasmodesmata, a phycoplast, and membranes closely appressed to pyrenoids. Detailed information exists on the fine structure (e.g. cytoskeleton) of naked zoospores.

Information contributed by: D.M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-09-14 by Wendy Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Burova, O.V., Tsarenko, P.M., Kovalenko, O.V., Petlovany, O.A., Mikhailyuk, T.I. & Lilitska, G.G. (2011). Chaetophorales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 264-278. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 14 September 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024