On 1/4YpSs agar: Growth is not as good as in 1/4YpSs slush. Color of colony white.
In 1/4YpSs slush: Sporangium formed from the expansion of the germ tube of the encysted zoospore, spherical 12.5-30 μm in diameter, somewhat oval, wall thin, smooth. Rhizoids arising from one, occasionally several, axes on the sporangium base, simple or extensively branched. Zoospores formed within the sporangium and discharged through one (or two) tube; discharge tube varying in length from a nearly sessile protuberance to 66.5 μm long. Zoospores spherical, 5 μm in diameter, with a conspicuous eccentric colorless globule, emerging singly and amoeboidly from the discharge tube.
Specimens：
Taiwan. Kaohsiung: Chokouhsi, water of stream, 28 Jan. 1993, NTNU 902a. Isolated on pine pollen from water.
Habitat：
Fresh water.
Distribution：
Italy, Germany, France, USA, Great Britain, Taiwan.
References：
Barr, DJS. 1971b; Chen, SF and Chien, CY. 1995; Karling, JS. 1931.
Provided：
S. F. Chen
Note：
Cyst is not a functional part of the mature thallus, thin-walled and devoid of protoplasm. Rhizoids emerge typically from a main basal axis formed on the sporangium base. Karling (1931) and Barr (1971) suggested E. cienkowskiana, and E. heliomorpha (Dang.) Fischer are probably synonymous with E. confervae-glomeratae.
Phylum：Chytridiomycota >> Class： Chytridiomycetes >> Order： Chytridiales 
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