Solentia Ercegovic, 1927

Holotype species: Solentia stratosa Ercegovic

Original publication and holotype designation: Ercegovic, A. (1927). Tri roda litofitskih cijanoficeja sa jadranske obale. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Universitatis Zagrebensis 2: 78-84, 5 figs.

Description: Unicellular-colonial; thallus composed of epilithic and endolithic pseudofilaments, epilithic part spread over the surface of limestone substrate, composed of simple and short uniseriate or multiseriate rows of spherical or slightly elongated, irregularly disposed cells; endolithic pseudofilaments are common, long, mucilaginous stalks, at the ends of which is situated one enlarged, oval, obovoid, club-shaped or irregular end cell, rarely uniseriate with a row of solitary cells, distant from one another, separated by a crosswise layered mucilage; all pseudofilaments are enveloped by wide, lamellated, gelatinous sheath, sometimes colored, pseudodichotomously or laterally divaricated ("branched"); lateral branches develop after the division of apical cells in endolithic pseudofilaments. Cells of irregular shape, more or less spherical to elongated, with more or less homogeneous, pale blue-green content. Cell division in different planes, apical cells sometimes divide into nanocytes. Reproduction by nanocytes and small clusters of cells enveloped by mucilage. Marine, on limestone shores in tide and surf-zones. Described from the Mediterranean Sea (Dalmatia, Yugoslavia), but more widely distributed.

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-03 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: Strunecký, O., Ivanova, A.P. & Mares, J. (2022 '2023'). An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis (Review). Journal of Phycology 59(1): 12-51.

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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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 03 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 04 May 2024