Micropoa Moewus, 1950

Holotype species: Micropoa leptochaete L.Moewus

Original publication and holotype designation: Moewus, L. (1950). Entwicklungsgeschichtliche Studien über einige mikroskopisch kleine Aufwuchsalgen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Hydrobiologie 12: 47-66.

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Description: Plants forming small cushion-like colonies of prostrate, uniseriate filaments. With age filaments give rise to sarcinoid packets of cells. Cells uninucleate with parietal chloroplast and pyrenoid, often bearing a very slender hair. Asexual reproduction by means of zoospores, these biflagellate, 4 or 8 produced in each swollen zoosporangium. Sexual reproduction unknown. Micropoa epiphytic on the floating aquatic Lemna minor. Known only from Europe. Description based on observation of the alga grown in culture.

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 23 April 2024