Nayalia P.C.Silva, 1959

Holotype species: Nayalia terrestris (Nayal) P.C.Silva

Original publication and holotype designation: Silva, P.C. (1959). Remarks on algal nomenclature. II. Taxon 8: 60-64.

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Description: Plants cultured on agar consist of two types of filament long-celled filaments penetrate surface and grow horizontally; surface filaments erect, short-celled and often multiseriate. Cells uninucleate with parietal chloroplast and one to several pyrenoids. Zoospores and gametes produced in globose cells of erect system, zoospores biflagellate or quadriflagellate and gametes isogamous and biflagellate. Some cells of erect system produce haematochrome and become akinetes. Nayalia grows on the surface of desert soil in Egypt. This genus closely resembles Fritschiella.

Information contributed by: D. M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-16 by Michael Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Ettl, H. & Gärtner, G. (1995). Syllabus der Boden-, Luft- und Flechtenalgen. pp. i-vii, 1-721. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.

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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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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 July 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024