Actidesmium Reinsch, 1875
Holotype species: Actidesmium hookeri Renisch
Original publication and holotype designation: Reinsch, P.F. (1875 '1874/75'). Contributiones ad algologiam et fungologiam. Vol. 1 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-103, [104, err.], 131 plates [I-III, IIIa, IV-VI, VIa, VII-XII, XIIa, XIII-XX, XXa, XXI-XXXV, XXXVa, XXXVI (Melanophyceae); I-XLII, XLIIa, XLIII-XLVII, XLVIIa, XLVIII-LXI (Rhodophyceae); I-XVIII (Chlorophyllophyceae); I-IX (Fungi)]. Norimbergae [Nürnberg]: Typis Theodor Haesslein.
Request PDFDescription: Colonial with 4-8-16 ovoid to fusiform or spindle shaped cells radiating from center with cells attached in middle by stellate wall structure. Cells 33-50 x 7-15 µm with smooth cell walls. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal without pyrenoid.
Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores, 6-7.3 x 3-4 µm. Zoospores released simultaneously from all cells in colony in a mass through apex of each sporangium where they lose their flagella and aggregate into adult form. Spherical to ovoid akinetes with verrucate walls also formed in clusters and released through ends of cells. Sexual reproduction unknown.
Actidesmium in acidic freshwater moors, often associated with Sphagnum or water plants; essentially cosmopolitan in temperate to subtropical climates. Placed by some authors with Marthea in subfamily Actidesmoideae.
Colonial with 4-8-16 ovoid to fusiform or spindle shaped cells radiating from center with cells attached in middle by stellate wall structure. Cells 33-50 x 7-15 µm with smooth cell walls. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal without pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores, 6-7.3 x 3-4 µm. Zoospores released simultaneously from all cells in colony in a mass through apex of each sporangium where they lose their flagella and aggregate into adult form. Spherical to ovoid akinetes with verrucate walls also formed in clusters and released through ends of cells. Sexual reproduction unknown. Actidesmium in acidic freshwater moors, often associated with Sphagnum or water plants; essentially cosmopolitan in temperate to subtropical climates. Placed by some authors with Marthea in subfamily Actidesmoideae.
Information contributed by: D. Gargary & T. Kalina. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-10 by Michael Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Sphaeropleales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 280-355. 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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