Lauterborniella Schmidle, 1900

Holotype species: Lauterborniella elegantissima Schmidle

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmidle, W. (1900). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Planktonalgen. I. Einige neue Formen. Berichte der deutsche botanischen Gesellschaft 18: 144-158, pl. VI.

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Description: Thalli colonial, forming 4-celled coenobia, 6-10 µm wide, not embedded in mucilaginous matrix. In surface view colony forming a cross with mid portions of cells joined in center, cell appearing oval with pointed wall projection. Cells 3-4 x 2-3 µm, elongated in plane perpendicular to coenobium; in side view lunate with acuminate tips pointing away from colony; in vertical view cell fusiform with colorless pointed ends. Cell wall smooth. Cells uninucleate; chloroplasts single and parietal with single pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by autospores; 4 per sporangium. Details of spore release not described. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Lauterborniella planktonic in freshwater, rare; reported from Java, Russia and United States. Bourrelly (1972) considers genus close to Tetradesmus from which it differs based on cell shape.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2013-07-30 by M.D. 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 July 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 May 2024