Oocystella Lemmermann, 1903

Holotype species: Oocystella natans Lemmermann

Description: Cells solitary or in 2-4-8-16-celled colonies within thin, hyaline, sometimes concentrically stratified mucilaginous envelope or within an expanded mother cell wall. Colony oval, ellipsoid or spherical, up to 55 &m in diameter. Cells broadly fusiform, ellipsoid, oval to nearly spherical, 4-32 x 2.5-22 &m. Cell wall smooth, often with polar thickenings. Chloroplast 1-4 (infrequently more), parietal, stellate or H-shaped, more frequently bowl-shaped or discoid, with a pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by 2-4-8-(16) autospores released by rupture of the mother cell wall; compound colonies resulting from persistent mother cell walls of parental generation of frequent occurrence. Hindák (1988) reported oogamy in one species, O. oogama. Oocystella planktonic, predominantly freshwater; cosmopolitan.

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-07-07 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Comments: cf. remarks under Oocystis)

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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. 07 July 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 April 2024