Marthea Pascher, 1918

Holotype species: Marthea tetras Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1918). Amoeboide Stadien bei einer Protococcales, nebst Bemerkungen über den primitiven Charakter nicht festsitzender Algenformen. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 36(5): 253-260.

Description: Four celled cruciate colonies with cells in single plane; with 16 cells prior to sporangial release. Colony and cell dimensions not recorded. Cells spindle shaped to fusiform with basal end truncate and attached to central mucilaginous mass; upper end free and quickly tapering to point. Cell walls smooth. Cells uninucleate; single chloroplast band shaped and parietal with single pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by autospores; four per sporangium. Autospores originally amoeboid, with contractile vacuoles and stigma, before aligning into new colony prior to sporangial release. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Marthea planktonic in freshwater; known only from original collections in Czechoslovakia. Genus poorly known and requires complete reinvestigation.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary and T. Kalina. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-09-24 by M.D. 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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