Phyllobium Klebs, 1881

Holotype species: Phyllobium dimorphum Klebs

Original publication and holotype designation: Klebs, G. (1884). Beiträge zur Kenntnis niederer Algenformen. Botanische Zeitung 39(17): 265-272.

Description: Thalli unicellular, endophytic, growing in dead (rarely living) leaves of some vascular plants or bryophytes. Cells solitary or in groups, irregularly globose, ellipsoidal, prolonged ovoid or club-shaped, usually with single cell wall protrusions forming elongated, sometimes branched, rhizoid-like projections. Chloroplast as parietal plates or radially arranged strands. Asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual reproduction anisogamous; after fusion, microgametes loose flagella, resulting in biflagellate zygote. After short motile period zygospore settles on host plant and forms tubular projection that penetrates into host. Vegetative cells form more or less globose or ellipsoidal resting cells containing considerable starch and red oil droplets. On germination resting cells release gametes. Phyllobium endophytic, found in leaves of some vascular plants or bryophytes (e.g., Lysimachia, Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Sphagnum); reported from Europe and North America. Genus of uncertain status, recent observations lacking.

Information contributed by: M. Puncochárová. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-02 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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