Gloeoskene Fott, 1957

Holotype species: Gloeoskene turfosa Fott

Original publication and holotype designation: Fott, B. (1957). Taxonomie drobnohledné flory našich vod [Taxonomie der mikroskopischen Flora einheimischer Gewasser]. Preslia 29: 278-319, 11 figs.

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Description: Colonial organisms with mucous thalli to 60-80 µm diameter, without definite form. Cells spherical or ellipsoidal with smooth cell walls and without order in homogenous matrix. Cells 6-8.5 µm (rarely 10 µm) diameter. Cells with two or three axial chloroplasts without pyrenoids and with oil droplets as reserve products. Asexual reproduction by autospores with two spores formed per mother cell; the parental cell wall remains in the colonial mucilage.

Information contributed by: I.M. Franceschini & M.D. Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-04 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: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

Comments: "Cellulis in strato mucoso amorpho iacentibus. Muco hyalino sine structuea, non terminato, diffluente. Membrana gracili, laevi, structura deficiente. Chromatophoeis duobus seu tribus, axialibus." (Original description). Gloeoskene known from peat bogs mixed with other algae; seeminglyreported only from Europe.

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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. 04 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 April 2024