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Dictyosphaerium
Sign in to saveDictyosphaerium is a genus of green algae, in the family Chlorellaceae. It occurs in freshwater habitats around the world and is planktonic. The name comes from the Greek roots diktyon, meaning "net", and sphaira, meaning "ball", referring to its morphology.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumChlorophyta
- ClassTrebouxiophyceae
- OrderChlorellales
- FamilyChlorellaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Chlorellaceae
- Collections
- MICH, IPA/SP, NY
- Recorded in
- Micronesia, Federated States Of, Brasil, Germany
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dictyosphaerium is a genus of green algae, in the family Chlorellaceae. It occurs in freshwater habitats around the world and is planktonic. The name comes from the Greek roots diktyon, meaning "net", and sphaira, meaning "ball", referring to its morphology.
==Description== Dictyosphaerium consists of irregular colonies of 4 to 64 cells in a common mucilaginous envelope 10–100 μm wide. Cells are roughly spherical to ellipsoidal, 1-10 μm in diameter, with one nucleus and a single pyrenoid-containing chloroplast. Cells are attached to the end of thin stalks; the stalks emerge from the center of the colony and continuously branch out. These stalks are formed from the remnants of the mother cell wall.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dictyosphaerium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.