palmella stage

palmella stage
noun also palmella form
Etymology: so called because originally thought to be a member of the genus Palmella
: a colonial aggregate of immobile nonflagellated individuals occurring regularly in the life cycle or in response to increased firmness of medium of some flagellated green algae or plantlike flagellates (as members of the genera Euglena and Chlamydomonas)

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