Trentepohliaceae are a family of green algae, and the only family in the order Trentepohliales. It is a member of the Ulvophyceaen green algae. The family is characterized by traits like net-like chloroplasts without pyrenoids, cell walls with plasmodesmata and cytokinesis by production of a phragmoplast. They are subaerial algae with a worldwide distribution.
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Trentepohliaceae are a family of green algae, and the only family in the order Trentepohliales. It is a member of the Ulvophyceaen green algae. The family is characterized by traits like net-like chloroplasts without pyrenoids, cell walls with plasmodesmata and cytokinesis by production of a phragmoplast. They are subaerial algae with a worldwide distribution.
== Description == Typically, members of Trentepohliaceae consist of uniseriate filaments that are variably branched. In some genera, the filaments are branched and produce small, bushy tufts; in others, the filaments are crowded, and grow into a pseudoparenchymatous small disc. Reproduction is both asexual and sexual. Zoospores are formed in what is called a "sporangiate-lateral", in which a sporangium is attached via a highly modified branch called a "suffultory cell". Their life cycle involves an alternation of generations between a sporophyte phase and a gametophyte phase; the sporophyte and gametophyte may be identical in morphology (isomorphic) or not (heteromorphic).
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