Mastigocladopsis M.O.P.Iyengar & T.V.Desikachary, 1946

Holotype species: Mastigocladopsis jogensis Iyengar & Desikachary

Original publication and holotype designation: Iyengar, M.O.P. & Desikachary, T.V. (1946). Mastigocladopsis jogensis gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the Stigonemataceae. Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India 24: 55-59.

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Description: Thallose; filaments sheathed and true branched, flexuous, creeping on the substrate or tangled in clusters. Sheaths thin, colorless, not lamellated. Trichomes uniseriate, constricted at crosswalls, with T- or reverse Y-like branching; branches usually slightly thinner than main trichomes, sometimes slightly attenuated towards the ends: terminal cells elongated-rounded. Cells more or less barrel-shaped (in main trichomes) to cylindrical (in branches), isodiametrical or distinctly longer than wide. Heterocytes intercalary (bipored), more or less spherical, wider than vegetative cells or lateral (unipored), attached to the vegetative cells or at the ends of short branches (with one or few cells). Akinetes not observed. Cells divide crosswise or lengthwise before branching. Reproduction by trichome dissociation, hormogonia not described. Both species are freshwater, growing attached to the stony substrate in streams; tropical species (India, Tunisia).

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-06 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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