Genicularia De Bary, 1858, nom. illeg.

Holotype species: Genicularia spirotaenia (De Bary) De Bary

Currently accepted name for the type species: Genicularina spirotaenia (De Bary) Molinari & Guiry

Original publication and holotype designation: De Bary, A. (1858). Untersuchungen über die Familie der Conjugaten (Zygnemeen und Desmidieen) Ein Beitrag zur physiologischen und beschreibenden Botanik. pp. [i]-vi, 1-91. Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung (Arthur Felix).

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Description: Cells solitary or in short filaments, elongate-cylindric (200-427 um long, up to 28 times longer than broad), with truncate ends. Cell wall with scattered granules. Chloroplasts 2 or 3 narrow, parietal, spiralling bands per cell with many pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction presumed only by transverse cell division. Sexual reproduction by conjugation. Gametangia become strongly bent (geniculate) before narrow conjugation tube forms. Zygote spherical, smooth-walled in conjugation tube. Genicularia rarely collected, reported from Eurasian and North American acidic, soft-water habitats.

Information kindly contributed by J.F. Gerrath but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Genicularina.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Molinari-Novoa, E.A. & Guiry, M.D. (2021). Nomenclatural notes on algae. III. Further replacement names for various algal taxa. Notulae Algarum 179: 1-7.

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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. 15 February 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024