palmelloidadj.

1869 F. P. Porcher Resources of Southern Fields (new ed.) 693 Three species of palmellæ, or palmelloid plants, one green, another red, a third lead color.

1890 M. C. Cooke Introd. Fresh-water Algæ iv. 41 Considerable surfaces are covered with a palmelloid growth.

1927 F. E. Fritsch West's Treat. Brit. Freshwater Algae (rev. ed.) 27 A large number of genera are known..in which this palmelloid condition is the permanent one (e.g. Palmella among Isokontae.., Chlorosaccus among Heterokontae [etc.]).

1969 F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants ii. 17 The individual cells [of Chlamydomonas] tend to multiply forming palmelloid stages.

1995 C. van den Hoek et al. Algae 117/2 In palmelloid forms the cells lie embedded in a common..envelope of mucilage. They therefore form colonies, which resemble those of the green alga Tetraspora.