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Zygnema

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Zygnemataceae

Rank
  
Genus

Division
  
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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Species

Some species include:

  • Z. atrocoeruleum
  • Z. binuclearioides
  • Z. carinthiacum
  • Z. carteri
  • Z. circumcarinatum
  • Z. coeruleum
  • Z. conspicuum
  • Z. cruciatum
  • Z. cyanosphaeroidicum
  • Z. cylindricum
  • Z. cylindrospermum
  • Z. fanicum
  • Z. gorakhporense
  • Z. insigne
  • Z. kashmirense
  • Z. kiangsiense
  • Z. leiospermum
  • Z. melanosporum
  • Z. momoniense
  • Z. normanii
  • Z. oveidanum
  • Z. pectinatum
  • Z. peliosporum
  • Z. quadrispirale
  • Z. ralfsii
  • Z. rivulare
  • Z. ruviatum
  • Z. schwabei
  • Z. spontaneum
  • Z. stagnale
  • Z. stellinum
  • Z. subtile
  • Z. tenue
  • Z. tenuissimum
  • Z. terrestre
  • Z. vaginatum
  • Z. vaucherii
  • Z. verrucosum

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    References

    Zygnema Wikipedia