Awadhiella—A new genus of coleochaetaceae from India

✍ Scribed by Braj Nandan Prasad; Deep Kumar Asthana

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 440 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00037506

✦ Synopsis

The paper reports a new alga found growing on Ceratophyllum leaves in a small pond near Lucknow . It possesses a heterotrichous vegetative organization, typical Coleochaete-like bristles and an oogamous sexual reproduction . Antheridia are simple, unspecialized, formed from vegetative cells producing several antherozoids each . Oogonia are large, swollen, oval, slightly elongate structures possessing a prominent beak. One or more oospheres are formed in each oogonium and some sterile residual cytoplasm may be left unutilized during oogenesis . Sterile cortications around the oospore or fertilized oogonia are absent. The present plant is considered a new genus of the family Coleochaetaceae (Chlorophyceae) and named Awadhiella gen . nov .