Sirogonium

Sirogonium
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryote
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
(unranked): Streptophyta
Class: Zygnematophyceae
Order: Zygnematales
Family: Zygnemataceae
Genus: Sirogonium
Kützing 1843
Type species
Sirogonium sticticum (Smith) Kützing
Species

21; see text.

Sirogonium is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales. It is found in freshwater areas on all continents but Antarctica. Spirogyra measures approximately 32–115 μm in width. Each cell contains 2–10 chloroplasts in a ribbon, in contrast to the closely related genus Spirogyra, which has chloroplasts in a coil.[1][2]

Species

The following species are currently accepted:[3]

  • Sirogonium calosporum Zhu
  • Sirogonium ceylanicum Wittrock
  • Sirogonium decoratum Prescott
  • Sirogonium denticulatum W.J.Zhu
  • Sirogonium floridanum (Transeau) G.M.Smith
  • Sirogonium fuscosporum Woodhead & Tweed
  • Sirogonium guangzhouense Zhu
  • Sirogonium hui (L.C.Li) Transeau
  • Sirogonium illinoisense (Transeau) G.M.Smith
  • Sirogonium indicum Singh
  • Sirogonium inflatum Dixit
  • Sirogonium kamatii Kadlubowska
  • Sirogonium khoriense Masud-ul-Hassan & M.Nizamuddin
  • Sirogonium melanosporum (Randhawa) Transeau
  • Sirogonium phacosporum Skuja
  • Sirogonium pseudofloridanum (Prescott) Transeau
  • Sirogonium reticulatum Randhawa
  • Sirogonium retroversum H.C.Wood
  • Sirogonium sticticum (Smith) Kützing
  • Sirogonium vandalurense Iyengar
  • Sirogonium ventersicum Transeau

References

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  1. Drummond, Christopher S.; Hall, John; Karol, Kenneth G.; Delwiche, Charles F.; McCourt, Richard M. (2005). "Phylogeny of Spirogyra and Sirogonium (Zygnematophyceae) Based on Rbcl Sequence Data1". Journal of Phycology 41 (5): 1055. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00130.x.
  2. Hall, John D.; Karol, Kenneth G.; McCourt, Richard M.; Delwiche, Charles F. (2008). "Phylogeny of the Conjugating Green Algae Based on Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Nucleotide Sequence Data". Journal of Phycology 44 (2): 467. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00485.x.
  3. "Sirogonium Kützing, 1843, nom. cons. :: Algaebase". algaebase.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
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