Pleurangium Skuja, 1937

Holotype species: Pleurangium amphibium Skuja

Original publication and holotype designation: Skuja, H. (1937). Algae. In: Symbolae Sinicae. Botanische Ergebnisse der Expedition der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien nach Südwest-China 1914/1918. (Handel-Mazzetti, H. Eds) Vol. 1, pp. 1-106. Wien: J. Springer.

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Description: Plants heterotrichous, consisting of sparingly divided uniseriate filaments, branches arise laterally from close to centre of cell, attached by short haptera. Cells uninucleate, barrel-shaped, each with 1 or 2 parietal chloroplasts and without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by ellipsoidal zoosporangia and globular akinetes. Sporangia terminal on lateral branches, zoospores dehiscing through a pore and akinetes by a median fracturing of wall. Flagellar number of zoospores unknown. Sexual reproduction unknown. Pleurangium from temporary water in limestone area of China. The illustrations of aplanosporangia accompanying the type description are similar to oogonia depicted for other genera. Pleurangium considered somewhat intermediate between the order Chaetophorales and the Trentepohliales.

Information contributed by: D. M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-16 by Michael Guiry.

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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Michael Guiry in 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 22 November 2024