Tags: Green Alga.
Gonium is a genus of colonial algae a member of the order Volvocales. Typical colonies have 4 to 16 cells all the same size arranged in a flat plate with no anterior-posterior differentiation. In a colony of 16 cells four are in the center and the other 12 are on the four sides three each. A description by G.M. Smith (1920 p.
