Pleurastrum Chodat, 1894

Holotype species: Pleurastrum insigne Chodat

Original publication and holotype designation: Chodat, R. (1894). Materiaux pour servir a l'histoire des Protococcoidées. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 2: 585-616.

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Description: Organisms with very variable growth habit, including short branched, uniseriate or multiseriate filaments, sarcinoid packets, cell tetrads and pairs, and single coccoid cells. Cells variously shaped: elongated, pyriform, L-shaped, oval to spherical, usually surrounded by a mucilaginous envelope. The side branches of filaments originate from the upper part of the cell near the transverse wall, and arise by lateral bulges. Cells uninucleate, containing a parietal chloroplast with one distinct pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate, stigma-possessing zoospores and by autospores.

Information contributed by: Skaloud et al. (2018: 124). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-14 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 neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Škaloud, P., Rindi, F., Boedeker, C. & Leliaert, F. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Freshwater flora of central Europe: Chlorophyta V: Ulvophyceae. Vol. 13 pp. [i]-vii, [1]-288, 182 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

Comments: Original description: Algue unicellulaire se reproduisant par tétrades de cellules dans l’intérieur de la membrane primitive, munie à l’état parfait de sculptures sur la membrane, formant des tétrades compliquées pouvant se résoudre en états gleocystis et produisant des zoospores à deux cils.

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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. 14 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024