stephanokont

1. not comparableHaving a subapical ring of short flagella that are uniform in length.

   They reported formation of motile, biflagellate, and stephaokont cells formed in separate gametangia and sporangia on the same plants.

   1991, Craig W. Schneider, Richard B.. Searles, Richard B. Searles, Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States: Cape Hatteras to Cape Canaveral, page 89

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   Although Feldmann (1950) believed the stephanokont zoospores were meiospores and would give rise to the Halicystis stage, just as Kornmann had already shown in Derbesia marina, he also considered it probable that at times the zoosporangia might produce mitospores which could give rise directly to Derbesia plants.

   1966, Robert Francis Scagel, Marine Algae of British Columbia and Northern Washington, page 111

   Both macandrous and nannandrous species produce stephanokont sperm in specially differentiated segments of the filament called antheridia.

   1984, Hayden N. Pritchard, Patricia T. Bradt, Biology of nonvascular plants, page 91

plural stephanokonts

1. An organelle that is stephanokont.