homovalvate

English

Etymology

From homo- +‎ valvate.

Adjective

homovalvate (not comparable)

1. Having identical (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom)
   • 2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Phase 1 involved heterovalvate, non-polar valves and spore-like frustules; phase 2 introduced more perforated, non-polar valves, and less spore-like frustules readily recognizable as diatoms even when modern valve-processes were absent; and phase 3 with homovalvate frustules and modern valve processes.