Oedogonium taylorii C.-C. Jao 1934

Oedogonium taylorii Jao, Rhodora 36: 211. 1934
Dioecious, nannandrous, idioandrosporous; oogonia 1-3, globose or ellipsoid-globose, with superior pore; oospore globose, very rarely subellipsoid-globose, partly or completely filling the oogonium; spore-wall of three layers, the outer and inner smooth, the middle with 22-28
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crenulate to slightly dentate, longitudinally continuous ribs, connected to the disc-shaped and 77
reticulate polar regions, polar axis nearly parallel to the filament; suffultory cell enlarged; androsporangia 1-4, mostly terminal on the filament; dwarf male a little curved, on the suffultory cell; antheridium 1, exterior; sperm single; vegetative cell capitellate; terminal cell obtuse; basal cell elongate; vegetative cell 8-19 by 38-1 12 ll; suffultory cell 32-34 by 54-74 M ; oogonium 35-51 by 46-74 M ; oospore 32-46 by 32-51 M ; androsporangium 16-18 by 16-23 ju; dwarf male stipe 9-13 by 48-51 /i; antheridium 6-16 by 4-7 fx basal cell 12-19 by 48-90 fx.
Type locality: Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Distribution: Massachusetts.