Open AccessSEM study of compound oospore wall ornamentation of some members of Charales from Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia
Author(s) -
D. K. Mandal,
M Jelena Blazencic,
Swati Ray
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
archives of biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1821-4339
pISSN - 0354-4664
DOI - 10.2298/abs0202028m
Subject(s) - oospore , taxon , chara , biology , botany
The outermost layer of the oospore wall of the members of Chorales shows various ornamentation patterns, formed due to differential deposition of wall material. These ornamentations are very conservative in nature and used as taxonomic criteria in identifying species and intraspecies taxa in Chorales. In the present investigation, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used to study the compound oospore wall ornamentations of twelve species belonging to the genera Chara, Nitella, Lamprothamnium and Lychnothamnus from Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia. The taxonomic identification and systematic position of these taxa are discussed in the light of these characteristic ornamentation patterns revealed by SEM