Streptochlora J.B.Petersen & J.B.Hansen, 1960

Holotype species: Streptochlora moniliformis J.B.Petersen & J.B.Hansen

Original publication and holotype designation: Petersen, J.B. & Hansen, J.B. (1960). On some neuston organisms. 1. Botanisk Tidsskrift 56(3): 197-234.

Description: Plants consisting of unbranched uniseriate or occasionally multiseriate filaments, from 3-7 cells in length. Cells uninucleate, cylindrical or swollen and bead-like, each with parietal chloroplast and starch grains but without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by zoospores produced in globular cells, almost 200 per cell, each with a stigma. No information on flagellar number. Sexual reproduction unknown. Only known from the surface film of lake in Denmark. It has been suggested that this little-known genus is perhaps a germination stage of Leptosira or a form of Gloeoplax.

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