Order & Family: Filamentous algae; cell division occurs near septum and adds "apical cap" (folded structure near the septum) ; cell body cylindrical, laterally straight or wavy or swell at one end of the cell body ("capitellate") in some species; chloroplasts reticulated with many pyrenoids; asexual reproduction by zoospore; sexual reproduction by fertilization by egg and sperm; monoecious or dioecious.
Genus: linear filament without branching (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar Genus ->> Oedocladium
Cell body laterally straight ![]()
Oedogonium sp.10
50 x 48 μm
Saitama, 1999![]()
Oedogonium sp.10
48-63 x 48 μm
Saitama, 2000![]()
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 49 μm
Mishima
Shizuoka, 2001![]()
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 44 μm
Hanyu
Saitama, 2003![]()
Oedogonium sp.10'
x 44 μm
Ishinazaka
Furukawa
Miyagi, 2003