A new freshwater species of Achlya from Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina

Achlya ambispora sp. nov. occurring on litter (floating dead leaves and twigs) in Las Cotofla stream, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, is described and illusbated and cornpared with similar species. The species produces principally androgynous and monoclinous, rarely diclinous antheridial branc...

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Autor principal: Steciow, Mónica Mirta
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/83584
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Sumario:Achlya ambispora sp. nov. occurring on litter (floating dead leaves and twigs) in Las Cotofla stream, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, is described and illusbated and cornpared with similar species. The species produces principally androgynous and monoclinous, rarely diclinous antheridial branches; oogonial wall and oospores are distinctly yellowish at maturity and differ from other species in having also 1–6(-22) centric-subcentric oospores, in oogonia somethes apiculate, that are frequently intercalary or proliferate in chains.