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1RICHA TANDON, 2KIRTIRAJE SINGH, 2AMITA PANDEY,

3RAMA KANT AND 4G. L. TIWARI

1Department of Botany, S.S. Khanna Girls Degree College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211003,

India, 2Department of Botany, C.M.P. Degree College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002,

India, 3Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, 250001, 4Department of

Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 211002,

Abstract

The present study reports about the occurrence of Oocystaenium elegans being reported for the first time from northern part of India. It is shown that male and female cells can be identified only when they produce antherozoids and eggs and not on the basis of shape and size of cells. Nuclear stages observed by iron alum acetocarmine method indicated that uninucleate stage was never observed in vegetative cells, minimum number of nuclei was 16 in young autospores and maximum was 128 in male cells producing antherozoids. It appeared to be a rare alga and presently restricted to Indian sub-continent.

Key words: Autospores, Oocystaenium elegans, Sexual Reproduction

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