Lympha J.R.Evans, I.S.Chapuis & M.L.Vis, 2017

Holotype species: Lympha mucosa J.R.Evans, I.S.Chapuis & M.L.Vis

Original publication and holotype designation: Evans, J.R., Chapuis, I.S. & Vis, M.L. (2017). Adding to the freshwater red algal diversity in North America: Lympha mucosa gen. et sp. nov. (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta). Algae 32(3): 171-179, 2 fig., 1 table.

Description: Thalli monoecious; light green to dark blue-green or black; consistency mucilaginous; branching irregular; whorls reduced, dense, pear-shaped or obconical, compressed, indistinct in older parts; cortical filaments of the main axis well developed with cylindrical cells; primary fascicles with cells ranging from ellipsoidal to fusiform; secondary fascicles very abundant, covering the entire internode; spermatangia terminal or sub-terminal on primary and secondary fascicles or adjacent to the involucral filaments; carpogonial branches straight, short, arising from the pericentral or proximal fascicle cells; involucral filaments short; carpogonia with unstalked, clavate, or elongate-lanceolate trichogynes; carposporophyte one per whorl, large, axial, subspherical to spherical, higher than whorls; gonimoblast filaments densely arranged, composed of cylindrical, ellipsoidal, or barrel-shaped cells; carposporangia obovoidal.

Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 138). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-13 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Vis, M.L. & Necchi, O., Jr. (2021). Subphylum Eurhodophytina, Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 129-332. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].

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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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