Glossary

Zusammenfassung

Aerophytic – plant or alga that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually growing on other leaves or stems of plants, but also on other substrates such as rocks.

Akinete – a thick-walled resting spore, produced through the differentiation of a vegetative cell, and functioning in asexual reproduction

Amyloplast – colorless, starch-storing plastid

Anisogamous – flagellate gametes of different sexes being different in size, the females being larger than the males

Annular – ring-shaped

Antheridium – male reproductive structure