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Sirogonium
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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]

References

  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. PMID 27041201.
  3. ^ "Sirogonium Kützing, 1843, nom. cons. :: Algaebase". algaebase.org. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  • John Whitton, B.A. and Brook, A.J. (editors) 2002. The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-77051-3.