Voukiella Ercegovi?, 1925
Holotype species: Voukiella rupestris Ercegović
Original publication and holotype designation: Ercegovic, A. (1925). Litofitska vegetacija vapnenaca i dolomita u Hrvatskoj. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Regalis Universitatis Zagrebensis 10(1): 64-114, 3 plates.
Request PDFDescription: Filamentous-thallose; thallus more or less spherical, gelatinous, firm, yellow-brown, macroscopic (to 1 mm diam.), with continual smooth surface, embedded in mucilage with irregularly arranged (in the peripheral parts more or less radial) coiled filaments. Trichomes irregularly waved, uniseriate, constricted at crosswalls, of the same width along the whole length, not attenuated, with wide rounded terminal cells, sometimes true branched (T-type ?). Sheaths around trichomes visible at the periphery of a colony, wide, homogeneous or finely lamellated, yellowish-brown, in the middle of colony diffluent, colorless, homogeneous. Cells barrel-shaped, more or less isodiametric or slightly longer than wide, blue-green. Heterocytes common, solitary, intercalary or terminal, spherical or slightly elongated. Akinetes not known. Cells divide evidently crosswise to the trichome, with the exception of branching. Reproduction not described (hormogonia ?). Described from wet limestone rocks (attached to the substrate) in Croatia and not revised again. The data from Czechoslovakia are uncertain.
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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