Micrasterias zeylanica F.E.Fritsch 1907

Publication Details
Micrasterias zeylanica F.E.Fritsch 1907: 246, fig. 4 C

Published in: Fritsch, F.E. (1907). A general consideration of the subaƫrial and fresh-water algal flora of Ceylon. A contribution to the study of tropical algal Eecology. Part I. - subaƫrial algae and algae of the inland fresh-waters. Proceeding of the Royal Society, London, Series B 79: 197-254.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Micrasterias is Micrasterias furcata C.Agardh ex Ralfs.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: N. Ceylon: in rock pools; (Index Nominum Algarum)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latinised), living in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka; from "zeylan" the Dutch pronunciation of Ceylon.

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
Cells small, length generally slightly exceeding the breadth, rather deeply constricted; sinus open, triangular acuminate with a pointed inner termination; semi-cells three-lobed, lobes separated by incisions, which penetrate as deeply as the sinus, and are inclined towards the latter; ends of terminal lobe bluntly pointed; lateral lobes with two blunt processes, separated by a narrow and rather shallow, rounded depression, the process next to the sinus being horizontal, the other bent down towards the sinus; polar lobe widely spreading, slightly drawn out at each extremity into a horizontal or deflected process; apex flatly convex. Outline very faintly granular. Cell-wall smooth or minutely punctate. Zygospore not seen.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 December 2018

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 December 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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