Coelastrella Chodat, 1922

Holotype species: Coelastrella striolata Chodat

Original publication and holotype designation: Chodat, R. (1922). Matériaux pour l'histoire des algues de la Suisse. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Geneve, série 2 13: 66-114.

Description: Thalli microscopic, unicellular or in few-celled aggregations. Cell wall hyaline to brownish with 16-40 longitudinal striations with polar thickenings absent or poorly developed; ultrastructurally, cell wall with inner, mostly polysaccharide layer and outer trilamellate layer created by coalescence of trilaminar plates produced via ER-derived vesicles; outer cell wall layer with undulate outline. Cell walls contain acetoresistant material, often thicken and peel off. Cells with numerous conspicuous vacuoles. Cells uninucleate, apparently without centrioles; chloroplast single and parietal consisting of polygonal, parietal plates or strips; pyrenoid single per cell with homogeneous stroma and surrounded by starch grains. Mature cultures brick red. Asexual reproduction by autospores, 2-16 per cell; released by rupture of parental cell wall. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown.

Information contributed by: T. Kalina, D. Garbary & M.D. Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-09-23 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Scherer, S. & Z.P. Zhong (1991). Dessication independance of terrestrial Nostoc commune ecotypes (Cyanobacteria). Microbial Ecology 22(1): 271-283.

Comments: Coelastrella in peat pools, Sphagnum beds, soil in pine woods; reported only from Europe. Genus placed in subfamily Scotiellocystoideae and distinguished from Chlorella based on cell wall structure and presence of acetoresistant material; distinction between Coelastrella and Scotiellopsis considered equivocal by some authors.

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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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 September 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 November 2024