Kingdom Plantae Family Zygnemataceae Rank Genus | Higher classification Zygnemataceae Order Zygnematales | |
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Similar Mougeotia, Zygnematales, Water silk, Green algae, Oedogonium |
Zygnema is a genus of freshwater filamentous thalloid alga comprising about 100 species. A terrestrial species, Z. terrestre, is known from India. Zygnema grows as a free-floating mass of filaments, although young plants may be found anchored to streambeds with a holdfast. The filaments form a yellow-green to bright green colored tangled mat, and are composed of elongate barrel-shaped cells, each with two star-shaped (stellate) chloroplasts arrayed along the axis of the cell.
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Spirogyra and zygnema
Species
Some species include:
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References
Zygnema Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA