Chaetophora F.Schrank, 1783

Lectotype species: Chaetophora lobata Schrank

Original publication: Schrank, F. von P. (1783). Botanische Rhapsodien. Der Naturforscher (Halle) 19: 116-126.

Type designated in: Caisová, L., Marin, B., Sausen, N., Proschold, T. & Melkonian, M. (2011). Polyphyly of Chaetophora and Stigeoclonium within the Chaetophorales (Chlorophyceae), revealed by sequence comparisons of nuclear-encoded SSU rRNA genes. Journal of Phycology 47(1): 164-177.

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Description: Plants globose, tuberculose or arbuscular, mucilaginous or somewhat cartilaginous. Thalli comprised of highly branched, intertwined, uniseriate filaments, each branch tapering to a blunt point or giving rise to a long, multicellular hair. Cells each with parietal chloroplast and one to several pyrenoids. Motile stages produced from peripheral cells, zoospores quadriflagellate and gametes biflagellate and isogamous. Emended diagnosis (Kützing, 1843 fide Liu et al., 2019).

Information contributed by: D.M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-11-20 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Caisová, L., Marin, B., Sausen, N., Proschold, T. & Melkonian, M. (2011). Polyphyly of Chaetophora and Stigeoclonium within the Chaetophorales (Chlorophyceae), revealed by sequence comparisons of nuclear-encoded SSU rRNA genes. Journal of Phycology 47(1): 164-177.

Comments: Species grow epiphytically on freshwater aquatic plants and a wide variety of other submerged surfaces. Widely distributed. Requires re-investigation as species distinguished principally on such unreliable criteria as macroscopic thallus form and nature of branching of the constituent filaments. Ultrastructural investigation of C. incrassata shows plasmodesmata, a phycoplast, and membranes appressed to pyrenoids.

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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. 20 November 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024