Apatococcus F.Brand, 1925
Holotype species: Apatococcus lobatus (Chodat) J.B.Petersen
Original publication and holotype designation: Brand, F. & Stockmayer, S. (1925). Analyse der aerophilen Grünalgenanflüge, insbesondere der proto- pleurococcoiden Formen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 52: 265-355.
Request PDFDescription: Plants consist of globular cells, often these divide in 2 or 3 planes to form irregular, cuboidal packets, sometimes forming short uniseriate filaments. Cells uninucleate with single, often lobed, parietal chloroplast without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate and slightly flattened zoospores , 8-32 (-64) produced per cell. Autospores spherical. Sexual reproduction unknown. Apatococcus subaerial, most commonly on bark of trees. Probably ubiquitous but often confused with other algae forming the so-called "proto-pleurococcoid" assemblage. Current opinion is that there is but a single very polymorphic species whereas formerly several were attributed to the genus. The type has been referred by Printz to Pleurastrum Chodat. Ultrastructural investigations reveal thylakoids lying perpendicular to the cell wall and a structure resembling a naked pyrenoid.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-28 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 masculine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Trebouxiophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 61-108. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..
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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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