Eremochloris Fucíková, P.O.Lewis & L.A.Lewis, 2014

Holotype species: Eremochloris sphaerica K.Fucíková, P.O.Lewis & L.A.Lewis

Original publication and holotype designation: Fucíková, K., Lewis, P.O. & Lewis, L.A. (2014). Widespread desert affiliation of Trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) including discovery of three new desert genera. Phycological Research 62(4): 294-305, 5 fig., 1 table.

Description: Cells spherical, elliptical or pyriform, with a single excentric nucleus. Chloroplast single, parietal, dissected into lobes, cup-shaped in young cells. Pyrenoid single, prominent, surrounded by several starch grains. Asexual reproduction via autospores and zoospores. Zoospores biflagellate with a lateral stigma, wall-less. Sexual reproduction rarely observed, by isogamous biflagellate gametes fusing by the cell sides without losing flagella. The gametes differ morphologically from zoospores only in the absence of stigma. Emended description by Abdullin & A. Gontcharov in Abdullin et al. (2022: [2]).

Information contributed by: Abdullin & A. Gontcharov in Abdullin & al. (2022: [2]).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-20 by G.M. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

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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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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024