Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Oedogonium decipiens Wittr. Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh 27: 126. 1870; Hirn, Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn. 27: 266. 1900.
Oedogonium vesicatum De Bary, Ber. Verh. Nat. Ges. Freiburg 1: 224. 1856. Oedogonium Rothii f. majus W. & G. West, Jour. Bot. 35: 5. 1897.
Dioecious, nannandrous, gynandrosporous ; oogonia 1-3, subdepressed-globose, operculate, division median, rather narrow; oospore subdepressed or depressed-globose, almost filling the oogonium; sporewall smooth; suffultory cell not swollen; androsporangia 1-6, subepigynous, hypogynous, or scattered; dwarf male unicellular, usually on the oogonium; vegetative cell 9-12 by 28-80 /n; oogonium 30-38 by 27-40 /*; oospore 25-34 by 23-28 /u; androsporangium 9-10 by 8-15 ju; dwarf male 6-7 by 13-15 ju-
Type locality: Germany.
Distribution: New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida; Puerto Rico.
- bibliographic citation
- Lewis Hanford Tiffany. 1937. OEDOGONIALES; OEDOGONIACEAE. North American flora. vol 11. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
