Coelastraceae
Coelastraceae | |
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Coelastrum microporum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Chlorophyceae |
Order: | Chlorococcales |
Family: | Coelastraceae |
Species | |
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Coelastrum reticulatum
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Coelastraceae is a family of green algae in the order Chlorococcales. Colonial algae usually arranged 3 dimensionally in spherical to loosely spherical shapes. Individual cells connected to each other via cell wall extensions. Cells usually in an even number arrangement. Chloroplasts plate-like with 1 pyrenoid. Name derived from coelom, in reference to the cavity created inside the sphere. Nonmotile.
Species in this family include:
- Coelastrum morus
- Coelastrum sphaericum
- Coelastrum polychordum
- Coelastrum cambricum
- Coelastrum astroideum
- Coelastrum reticulatum
- Coelastrum microporum
- Coelastrum proboscideum