Lochmium Printz, 1916
Holotype species: Lochmium piluliferum Printz
Description: Plants similar in vegetative structure to Microthamnion but differing in having broader cells and club-shaped or ovoid, thick-walled, terminal akinetes. Asexual reproduction by zoosporangia that develop from any cell but zoospores not observed. Other forms of reproduction unknown. Lochmium reported from Siberia where it was probably collected from brackish-water. This little-known genus probably congeneric with the closely related Microthamnion.
Information contributed by: D. M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-16 by Michael Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
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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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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 July 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
