Gomontia Bornet & Flahault, 1888

Holotype species: Gomontia polyrhiza (Lagerheim) Bornet & Flahault

Original publication and holotype designation: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1888). Note sur deux nouveaux genres d'algues perforantes. Journal de Botanique, Morot 2: 161-165.

Description: Partly endobiotic organisms, perforating the surface of shells, limestone, wood, or artificial material. Thallus filamentous, consisting of uniseriate, irregularly branched masses of filaments, sometimes forming pseudoparenchymatous discs with downwardly growing rhizoids. Cells cylindrical, ovoid or polygonal, multinucleate, with thickened and stratified cell walls. Chloroplast single, often net-like or lobed, with several pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by bi- or quadriflagellate zoospores released through exit tubes, aplanospores, and akinetes. Sexual reproduction by biflagellate gametes. The sporophyte is single-celled, cylindrical, ovoid or polygonal, usually possessing thickened cell wall processes.

Information contributed by: Skaloud et al. (2018: 138). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-03-16 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Škaloud, P., Rindi, F., Boedeker, C. & Leliaert, F. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Freshwater flora of central Europe: Chlorophyta V: Ulvophyceae. Vol. 13 pp. [i]-vii, [1]-288, 182 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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