Scytolyngbya Gao-Fei Song, Yong-Guang Jiang & Ren-Hui Li, 2015

Holotype species: Scytolyngbya timoleontis Gao-Fei Song, Yong-Guang Jiang & Ren-Hui Li

Original publication and holotype designation: Song, G.-F., Jiang, Y.-G. & Li, R.-H. (2015). Scytolyngbya timoleontis, gen. et sp. nov. (Leptolyngbyaceae, Cyanobacteria): a novel false branching Cyanobacteria from China. Phytotaxa 224(1): 72-84, 6 figs.

Description: Thallus pale bluish green to yellow-brown. Filaments bent, entangled, nonmotile, with repeated, single false branching. Branches mostly narrower than the main filaments. Trichomes thin, monoseriate, only single within filaments, cylindrical along the whole length. Sheaths initially thin, colourless, later yellow-brown, widened, appearing firm. Cells longer than wide, cylindrical, non-granular, distinctly constricted at cross-walls, not attenuated at the ends. Apical cells rounded.

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