Neglectella Vodenicarov & Benderliev, 1971

Holotype species: Neglectella eremosphaerophila Vodenicarov & Benderliev

Original publication and holotype designation: Vodenicarov, D. & Benderliev, K. (1971). Neglectella gen. nov. (Chlorococcales). Nova Hedwigia 21: 801-812.

Description: Cells solitary or in 2-4-8-celled colonies within an expanded mother cell wall. Cells broadly fusiform, oval or ellipsoid, 12-86 x 10-60 µm, the apices broadly rounded or bluntly acuminate. Cell wall smooth, with or without polar thickenings, sometimes with fine, mucilage-secreting pores. Chloroplasts several, more or less band-like and radially arranged, with or without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by formation of 2-4-8 autospores. Sexual reproduction and flagellated stages unknown. Neglectella, littoral of acidic freshwater habitat, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Sweden. Neglectella is a segregate genus from Oocystis and some authors do not consider it distinct. Cells solitary or in 2-4-8-celled colonies within an expanded mother cell wall. Cells broadly fusiform, oval or ellipsoid, 12-86 x 10-60 µm, the apices broadly rounded or bluntly acuminate. Cell wall smooth, with or without polar thickenings, sometimes with fine, mucilage-secreting pores. Chloroplasts several, more or less band-like and radially arranged, with or without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by formation of 2-4-8 autospores. Sexual reproduction and flagellated stages unknown. Neglectella, littoral of acidic freshwater habitat, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and Sweden. Neglectella is a segregate genus from Oocystis and some authors do not consider it distinct.

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. 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.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: John, D.M. & Tsarenko, P.M. (2002). Order Chlorococcales. In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 327-409. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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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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