Two new taxa of Spirogyra

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1970 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Hydrobiologia, volume 36, pages 27-31 (issn: 0018-8158, eissn: 1573-5117,

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Authors: Braj Nandan Prasad; Shipra Dutta;

doi: 10.1007/bf00751280

Two new taxa of Spirogyra

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A new species and a new variety ofSpirogyra have been recorded.Spirogyra varshaii spec. nov. has been described and compared to two related species ofSpirogyra. This species has a very distinct subdenticulate to denticulate type of ornamentation of the zygospore wall and differs from the other two related speciesS. chakiense andS. verruculosa in having different dimensions of the zygospores and in the number of chloroplasts. A new variety,Spirogyra chakiense var.lucknowense var. nov. has been described. It differs from the speciesS. chakiense in possessing some differences in the dimensions of the cells and the zygospores from the type species.

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