Lemmermanniella L.Geitler, 1942

Holotype species: Lemmermanniella pallida (Lemmermann) Geitler

Original publication and holotype designation: Geitler, L. (1942). Schizophyta: Klasse Schizophyceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Sweite Auflage. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds) Vol.1b, pp. 1-232. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.

Description: Unicellular-colonial; colonies microscopic, spherical, irregularly spherical to irregular, mucilaginous, free-living (mainly floating) in freshwater reservoirs, with cells situated more or less in the peripheral layer, without any mucilaginous stalks. Cells are oval to rod-like, without aerotopes, placed in the surface layer tangentially and irregularly or in small groups, sometimes more or less parallel. Mucilage is colorless, fine, limited or diffluent, sometimes slightly concentrically lamellated. Cell division always perpendicular to the lengthwise axis of elongated cells, in one and the same plane in successive generations; however, the daughter cells soon shift from the original direction and form groups with parallel situated cells. Colonies reproduce by the "budding" of small daughter colonies, or by dissociation of colonies into small groups of cells or to solitary cells enveloped by slime, up into solitary cells. The type species occurs rarely planktonic in slightly eutrophic lakes in western Baltic region (southern Norway and Sweden, Denmark, northern Germany); two other species were described from small reservoirs with water plants in eastern Slovakia (Czechoslovakia), however, their generic position remains questionable.

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-02 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: 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024