Gloeocystis Nägeli, 1849

Holotype species: Gloeocystis vesiculosa Nägeli

Original publication and holotype designation: Nägeli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10(7): i-viii, 1-139, pls I-VIII.

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Description: Colonies (rarely unicellular) microscopic with cells embedded in irregular mucilaginous envelope and forming spherical to pyramidal to amorphous masses to about 55 &m diameter. Mucilaginous material often lamellate around each cell or group of cells, these often in clusters following sporulation. Cells spherical to oval, mostly 6-23 &m in maximum dimension, with smooth cell walls. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal with single pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by autospores; 2-8(-16) per sporangium. Brown akinetes with thick walls reported for G. banneergattensis. Gloeocystis planktonic in freshwater, aerial on rocks or wood, in soil or associated with mosses; widely distributed in temperate to tropical climates. Taxonomic concepts vary among recent authors with Gloeocystis species overlapping with Coenocystis; distinguishing features of these genera require reevaluation. Species distinguished based on cell size, shape and arrangement, and colony morphology.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary & A. Comas. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2016-02-27 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Sphaeropleales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 280-355. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

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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. 27 February 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024