Trichodiscus Welsford, 1912, nom. illeg.

Holotype species: Trichodiscus elegans Welsford

Original publication and holotype designation: Welsford, E.J. (1912). The morphology of Trichodiscus elegans, gen. et sp. nov. Annals of Botany 26(101): 239-243, plate 27.

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Description: Plants discoid and cushion-like, heterotrichous, consisting of branched, uniseriate filaments. Prostrate filaments radiating, united to form a central pseudoparenchymatous disc and free at margin. Short erect filaments and colourless (above base) multicellular hairs arise from centre of thallus. Cells uninucleate, with lobed, parietal chloroplast and pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by zoospores and akinetes. Zoospores biflagellate, produced in cells from central part of thallus. Cells round up to form akinetes. Sexual reproduction unknown. Epiphytic on the water fern Azolla where its discoid thallus reaches a few cms in diameter. Reported from England, believed to be present in USA.

Information contributed by: D.M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-01-29 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 January 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024