Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Trebouxiales
Family: Botryococcaceae
Genus: Botryococcus
Species: braunii
Authority: Kützing

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Origin

Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Brackish
Country: Australie
Region: New South Wales

Identity

Distributed: ✖
Holotype: ✖
Axenic: ✖
Clonal: ✔
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: ✖
Ecotoxicology: ✖
Teaching: ✖
Ecosystem marker: ✖
rARN 18S sequence available: ✖

Morphology

Flagellate: ✖
Length: 10
Width: 5

Culture

Isolation date: 1995
Isolation site: Lac de Jillamatong
Isolation previous code: Jillamatong 3
Culture medium: L-C
Growth temperature: 27
Bibliography
- Senousy, H.H., Beakes, G.W., Hack, E. (2004). Phylogenetic placement of Botryococcus braunii. JPhycol. 40: 412-423), - Metzger, P., Pouet, Y., Summons, R. (1997) Chemotaxonomic evidence for the similarity between Botryococcus braunii L race and Botryococcus neglectus. Phytochemistry 44: 1071-1075), - Senousy, H.H. (2003) A molecular taxonomic and morphological study of the green algal genus Botyrococcus. PhD Thesis, 248pp, University of Newcastle, UK.