Iwanoffia Pascher, 1905

Holotype species: Iwanoffia terrestris (Iwanoff) Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1905). Zur Kenntnis der geschlechtlichen Fortpflanzung bei Stigeoclonium sp. (S. fasciculatum Kuetz?). Flora (Jena) 95: 95-107.

Description: Plants heterotrichous, consisting of branched, uniseriate filaments, attached by colourless rhizoids. Filaments of erect system narrower than those of prostrate system, branches of erect system with terminal hairs. Cells uninucleate each with single parietal chloroplast and one or many pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoids, single macrozoospore or two microzoospores, produced per sporangium. Spores with two equal flagella. Sexual reproduction unknown. Iwanoffia known only from damp soil from USSR. Closely resembles Stigeoclonium but separated by having biflagellate zoospores and an absence of hairs. Plants heterotrichous, consisting of branched, uniseriate filaments, attached by colourless rhizoids. Filaments of erect system narrower than those of prostrate system, branches of erect system with terminal hairs. Cells uninucleate each with single parietal chloroplast and one or many pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoids, single macrozoospore or two microzoospores, produced per sporangium. Spores with two equal flagella. Sexual reproduction unknown. Iwanoffia known only from damp soil from USSR. Closely resembles Stigeoclonium but separated by having biflagellate zoospores and an absence of hairs.

Information contributed by: D.M. John.

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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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 July 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 September 2024