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Spirogyra (common names include water silk, mermaid's tresses, and blanket weed) is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales, named for the helical or spiral arrangement of the chloroplasts that is characteristic of the genus. Spirogyra species, of which there are more than 500, are commonly found in freshwater ...
The Zygnemataceae are cosmopolitan, but though all generally occur in the same types of habitats, Mougeotia, Spirogyra, and Zygnema are by far the most common; in one study across North America, [3] 95% of the Zygnemataceae collected were in these three genera. Classification and identification is primarily by the morphology of the conjugation ...
The body plan of Zygnematophyceae is simple, and the group appears to have gone through a secondary loss of morphological complexity. [8] The most basal members are unicellular, but filamentous species have evolved at least five times, [9] and a few species form colonies. [7]
The Zygnematales (Greek: ζυγός (zygós) and νῆμα (nḗma) (), νήματος (nḗmatos) ()), also called the Conjugatales, [1] are an order of green algae, [2] comprising several thousand different species in two families.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Spirogyra elegans is a species of green algae in the family Zygnemataceae. [1]
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Haploid algal cells (containing only one copy of their DNA) can fuse with other haploid cells to form diploid zygotes. When filamentous algae do this, they form bridges between cells, and leave empty cell walls behind that can be easily distinguished under the light microscope. This process is called conjugation and occurs for example in Spirogyra.
There are several species which are referred to as green thread algae. This includes those of the genus Rhizoclonium which form pale-green to brown strands, those of the genus Spirogyra which form long green strands, and those of the genus Oedogonium which form short green strands.