Lanceola
Appearance
Lanceola | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Chlorophyceae |
Order: | Sphaeropleales |
Family: | Characiaceae |
Genus: | Lanceola Hindák, 1988 |
Species: | L. spatulifera
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Binomial name | |
Lanceola spatulifera (Korshikov) Hindák
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Lanceola is a genus of green algae in the family Characiaceae, containing a single species, Lanceola spatulifera.[1] It is found in freshwater habitats.[2]
Lanceola consists of free-floating, single cells. The cell is narrowly spindle-shaped (fusiform), tapered into a narrow spine at one end, and at the other end a lanceolate appendage. The cell wall is smooth. Cells contain a single parietal chloroplast with a pyrenoid, and a central nucleus. It reproduces by forming zoospores with two flagella.[2]
The genus was created by František Hindák for the leaf-like appendage on one end of the cell. However, it has been rejected by other taxonomists, because the structure appears typical of the appendages found in the genus Ankyra.[1]
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