Chaetomnion Skuja, 1937

Holotype species: Chaetomnion pyriferum Skuja

Original publication and holotype designation: Skuja, H. (1937). Algae. In: Symbolae Sinicae. Botanische Ergebnisse der Expedition der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien nach Südwest-China 1914/1918. (Handel-Mazzetti, H. Eds) Vol. 1, pp. 1-106. Wien: J. Springer.

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Description: Thalli cushion like-tufts of radially arranged filaments. Filaments uniseriate and much branched. Primary filament prostrate, bearing secondarily erect branches, often with terminal long, basally inflated, unicellular, hyaline hairs. Cells short, uninucleate, each with parietal and band or plate-like chloroplast and 1 or 2 pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by pyriform or ellipsoidal aplanospores, terminal in secondary branches. Other reproductive structures unknown. Chaetomnium known only from submerged aquatics in a mountainous region of China and in the Himalayas (Nepal). Genus characterised by large size and pyriform or ellipsoidal shape of aplanospores. Aplanosporangia also referred to as 'akinetes' in original description; further study necessary to clarify relationship between 'aplanosprangia' and 'akinetes'.

Information contributed by: D. M. John. 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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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 July 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024