Kyliniella Skuja, 1926

Holotype species: Kyliniella latvica Skuja

Original publication and holotype designation: Skuja, H. (1926). Eine neue Süsswasserbangiaceae Kyliniella n.g., n. sp. Kada jauna saldudens sartalga Kyliniella latvica n. g., n. sp. Acta Horti Botanici Universitatis Latviensis 1(1): 1-6, 1 pl.

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Description: Unbranched pseudofilaments growing in grey-green clusters from discoid, pseudoparenchymatous base. Maximum filament length 2-3 cm. Cell diam. 15-19 µm, 0.5-1 times as long, surrounded by mucilaginous envelope up to 16 µm wide. Cells contiguous or separate, containing several parietal, blue-green discoid chloroplasts. Rhizoidal outgrowths at points of contact. Vegetative reproduction by hormogonia. Asexual reproduction by monospores shed by expulsion through sheath. Presumptive sexual reproduction in New Hampshire population with small colorless spermatia and large, pigmented carpogonia with tubular projections. Fate of zygote unknown.

Information contributed by: R.G. Sheath. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-01 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Necchi, O., Jr. & Vis, M.L. (2021). Subphylum Cyanidiophytina, Class Cyanidiophyceae; Subphylum Proteorhodophytina, Classes Compsopogonophyceae, Porphyridiophyceae, Rhodellophyceae, and Stylonematophyceae. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 27-56. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].

Comments: Uncommon epiphyte of macrophytes in streams of Europe and northeastern USA, mostly in summer and fall.

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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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