Isocystis A.Borzì ex É.Bornet & C.Flahault, 1886

Lectotype species: Isocystis messanensis Borzì ex Bornet & Flahault

Original publication and holotype designation: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1886 '1888'). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 7: 177-262.

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Description: Filamentous; filaments solitary, in small, microscopic fascicles or in formless, microscopic, gelatinous colonies, attached to the substrate, in metaphyton or free floating, with fine, diffluent, structureless, colorless, sometimes hardly visible gelatinous envelopes. Trichomes uniseriate, simple, curved or coiled, isopolar, usually slightly narrowed to both ends, clearly constricted at crosswalls. Cells barrel-shaped, isodiametrical or longer or shorter than wide, sometimes with solitary granules within cells. Heterocytes missing. Akinetes arise in rows, more or less in the middle of trichomes (apoheterocytic origin), a little larger than vegetative cells, with thick cell walls. All cells capable of division, cell division crosswise, perpendicular to the trichome axis. Reproduction by short hormogonia (sometimes dissociating into solitary cells) and by akinetes. One species grows subaerophytic on wet walls, several are periphytic in different freshwater biotopes (springs, littorals of stagnant water), one species is planktonic, one was described from soil.

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-03-04 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Komárek, J., Kaštovský, J., Mares, J. & Johansen, J.R. (2014). Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 86: 295-335.

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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 March 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024