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Description:
Botrydium (bot-rid-ee-um), xanthophyte - a group of walled stramenopiles although unlike most stramenopiles with plastids, the xanthophytes have a much greener colour. Botrydium is usually assigned to the Vaucheriales, which are characterised by being able to adopt a coenocytic (multinucleate) body form. Normally grows on mud. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Chrysista
- Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae)
- Botrydiales
- Botrydiaceae
- Botrydium
- Botrydium granulatum
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