Spongiochloris R.C.Starr, 1955

Holotype species: Spongiochloris spongiosa (Vischer) R.C.Starr

Original publication and holotype designation: Starr, R.C. (1955). A comparative study of Chlorococcum meneghini and other spherical, zoospore-producing genera of the Chlorococcales. Indiana University Publications. Science Series 20: [i]-viii, 1-111, 239 figs.

Description: Emended description: Cells solitary, spherical with smooth cell wall. Immature cells uninucleate, mature cells multinucleate, with one parietal, cup-shaped chloroplast in young cells becoming reticulate to spongiform with age. A single pyrenoid in immature cells and several pyrenoids in mature cells. Pyrenoid matrix split into several pieces. Size of mature cells >80 µm. Reproduction by zoospores of the "Protosiphon" type (without cell walls) or autospores.

Information contributed by: Emend. Darienko & Pröschold (2022). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-08-20 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: Darienko, T. & Pröschold, T. (2022). Valeriella, a new genus of terrestrial coccoid green algae previously assigned to Spongiochloris R.C.Starr (Chlorophyceae, Chlorococcaceae). Notulae Algarum 251: 1-7, 1 fig.

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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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