Mastigocoleus Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault, 1886

Holotype species: Mastigocoleus testarum Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault

Original publication and holotype designation: Bornet, É. & Flahault, C. (1886 '1887'). Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 5: 51-129.

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Description: Thallose - thallus composed of free, densely irregularly coiled, creeping filaments. Sheaths thin, firm, colorless, homogeneous. Trichomes always uniseriate, with cylindrical cells, not or slightly constricted at crosswalls, commonly irregularly laterally true-branched; branching of T-type; branches more or less short, 1-2-few-celled, terminated by apical, unipored heterocytes or long, continually tapering to the hair-like ends. Cells more or less isodiametric or longer than wide (especially in ends of branches), blue-green or pinkish. Heterocytes terminal at branches or lateral (laterally attached to trichomal cells), rarely intercalary, usually solitary, rarely in pairs. Akinetes missing. Cells divide crosswise and lengthwise before branching. Reproduction by hormogonia. Marine; creeping epilithic on calcareous stones and on the surface of shells of molluscs, distributed over the European, South African and American coasts of the temperate and subtropical zone. Data from freshwaters (M. testarum var. aquae-dulcis from rivers in Russia) needs revision. Revised description (Ramirez-Reinat & Garcia-Pichel 2012: 747).

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 masculine.

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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