Oedogonium platygnum Wittr.

  • Filed As

    Oedogoniaceae
    Oedogonium platygnum Wittr.

  • Specimen Notes

    [literature only]

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 02109524

    Occurrence ID: 29188d0b-acf1-4f11-80aa-687214ce77d0

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  • Kingdom

    Algae

  • Division

    Chlorophyta

  • Class

    Chlorophyceae

  • Order

    Oedogoniales

  • Family

    Oedogoniaceae

  • All Determinations

    Oedogonium platygnum Wittr.

    No botanical uses.

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/&2fFigs. 432. Oedogonium platygynum Wittr. (a,
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215. Oedogonium platygynum Wittr. Bot. Notiser 1872: 1. 1872.

1892.

34. 1930.

Oedogonium. platygynum f. majus W. West, Jour. Linn. Soc. 29: 109.

Oedogonium platygynum var. osiliae Skuja, Acta Horti Univ. Latv. 4:

Dioecious, nannandrous, gynandrosporous and idioandrosporous; oogonia 1 or 2, depressed-
obovoid, with 7-12 (more often 8) rounded projections arranged in a whorl around the middle,
operculate, division inframedian; oospore depressed- or subdepressed-globose, not quite filling
oogonium; spore-wall smooth; suffultory cell sometimes tumid; androsporangia 1-3; vegetative
cell evidently capitellate; terminal cell apically obtuse; dwarf male unicellular, obovoid, small,
on oogonium; vegetative cell 5-11 by 14-50 /1; oogonium 20-30 by 16-24 ju; oospore 16-24 by
13-20 n\ androsporangium 6-8 by 7-8 m; dwarf male 4—6 by 8-12 /x.

Type locality: Sweden.

Distribution: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Florida.	. n

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