Tetraspora gelatinosa (Vaucher) Desvaux 1818

Publication Details
Tetraspora gelatinosa (Vaucher) Desvaux 1818: 18

Published in: Desvaux, N.A. (1818). Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers, pour servir de supplément a la flore Maine et Loire, et de suite à l'histoire naturelle et critique des plantes de France. pp. [1]-188. Angers & Paris: Chez Fourier-Mame, Libraire, rue Saint-Laud; Dondey-Dipré, Libraire, no. 46, au Marais.

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Publication date: July 1818

Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Tetraspora.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Ulva gelatinosa Vaucher

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
Colony spherical, saccate or cumulous, variable in size from 0.5-2 cm for regular colonies, to 10 cm or more, usually 0.5-1.0 mm thick, irregular in shape, green (but sometimes mucilage becoming brownish). Cells spherical to slightly ellipsoid, 610 µm diam., somewhat compactly arranged towards outside of matrix, pyrenoid single, subbasal, pseudoflagella not appearing to extend beyond mucilage. Akinetes spherical, brown, 9-15 µm in diameter

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 24 July 2018

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 July 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024

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