Dictyochlorella P.C.Silva, 1959

Holotype species: Dictyochlorella globosa (Korshikov) P.C.Silva

Original publication and holotype designation: Silva, P.C. (1959). Remarks on algal nomenclature. II. Taxon 8: 60-64.

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Description: Thalli microscopic, forming spherical to oval or irregular colonies with 4-8-16 cells embedded in mucilaginous envelope. Cells in groups of 4 and tetrahedrally arranged; joined in various planes by thin, simple or branched, hyaline or brown threads of compact mucilage. Cells spherical, oval to kidney-shaped, 7-10 &m in diameter or length. Cell walls mostly thin and smooth, sometimes with verrucose outgrowths at attachment points of threads. Single nucleus central; chloroplast parietal, uniform or indistinctly reticulate, without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by autospores and zoospores. Daughter cells at first closely aggregated, released by fragmentation and partial or complete dissolution of parental cell walls. The structure of zoospores, sexual reproduction and resting stages unknown. Dictyochlorella planktonic or in bogs; rare, reported from Europe and Brazil.

Information contributed by: F. Hindák & D. Garbary. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-01-25 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Chlorococcales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 232-264. 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 January 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024