Thamniochaete F.Gay, 1893

Holotype species: Thamniochaete huberi F.Gay

Original publication and holotype designation: Gay, F. (1893). Sur quelques algues de la flore de Montpellier. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Actualités Botaniques session extraordinaire á Montpellier 40: CLXXIII-CLXXVIII.

Description: Plants forming a crust or growing as isolated uniseriate filaments, creeping or erect, with branches few and short. Cells uninucleate, cylindrical, each with parietal chloroplast and pyrenoid. Terminal cells, sometimes also lateral cells, bear long and often basally swollen hairs. Asexual reproduction by zoospores only known in one species. Zoospores ovoid or globose and biflagellate with 2 contactile vacuoles and stigma. Sexual reproduction unknown. Reported growing on stones and wood in moving water. Doubt attaches to placement of Thamniochaete aculeata in the genus due to the different form of its setae compared to type species. One species of Endoclonium, E. rivulare, is often placed in Thamniochaete. The type species of Endoclonium (E. chroolepiforme) is considered to be a form of Stigeoclonium.

Information contributed by: D.M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-12-30 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: John, D.M. (2002). Orders Chaetophorales, Klebshormidiales, Microsporales, Ulotrichales. In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 433-468. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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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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