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Taxonomy

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

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Origin

Climate zone: Tropical
Habitat: Lake
Country: Bolivie, l'État Plurinational De
Region: La Paz

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: 1986
Isolation site: Challapata
Isolation previous code: Challapata
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., Villareal-Rosales, E., Casadevall, E., Couté, A. (1989) Hydrocarbons, aldehydes and triacylglycerols in some strains of the A race of the green alga Botryococcus braunii. Phytochemistry 28: 2349-2353