Bibliographic Detail
Wujek, D.E., 2012
Reference:
Wujek, D.E. (2012). The first report of the coccoid green alga Echinocoleum from North America and a description of a new species, E. flocculosum (Trebouxiophyceae, Oocystaceae) from Kansas and Michigan. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 115: 41-45.
Abstract:
A new green chlorococcoid alga, Echinocoleum flocculosum sp. nov., is described. It was collected from Stoney Lake. Kalamazoo County, and Miller's Marsh, Charlevoix County, Michigan, and in Kansas from a residual streambed pool near Fall River, Greenwood County, and a pond in an old oxbow depression at Lawrence, Douglas County. It is characterized by being a free floating single celled or immobile aggregate colony. Individual cells are spherical and contain a cup-shaped chloroplast with a single pyrenoid. All cells bear characteristic mucilage protuberances giving the cell an overall starshaped appearance.
