Chaetotheke Düringer, 1958

Holotype species: Chaetotheke reptans Düringer

Original publication and holotype designation: Düringer, I. (1958). Über die Verteilung epiphytischer Algen auf den Blättern wasserbewohnender Angiospermen sowie systematisch-entwicklungsgeschichtliche Bemerkungen über einige grüne Algen. Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 105: 1-53.

Description: Irregular branched, prostrate filament enclosed in thin mucilaginous sheath. Cells with single parietal chloroplast with pyrenoid; rotation of chloroplast observed. Some cells with sheathed hairs. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores produced singly or in pairs; eyespots lacking. Sexual reproduction unknown. Chaetothece reported from Austria and New Zealand attached to aquatic plants in freshwater. Critical studies on reproduction and ultrastructure not carried out; assignment to Charophyceae provisional.Irregular branched, prostrate filament enclosed in thin mucilaginous sheath. Cells with single parietal chloroplast with pyrenoid; rotation of chloroplast observed. Some cells with sheathed hairs. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores produced singly or in pairs; eyespots lacking. Sexual reproduction unknown. Chaetothece reported from Austria and New Zealand attached to aquatic plants in freshwater. Critical studies on reproduction and ultrastructure not carried out; assignment to Charophyceae provisional.

Information contributed by: L.E. Graham. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-16 by Michael Guiry.

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

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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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