Iningainema G.B.McGregor & B.C.Sendall, 2017

Holotype species: Iningainema pulvinus B.C.McGregor & Sendall

Original publication and holotype designation: McGregor, G.B. & Sendall, B.C. (2017). Iningainema pulvinus gen nov., sp nov. (Cyanobacteria, Scytonemataceae) a new nodularin producer from Edgbaston Reserve, north-eastern Australia. Harmful Algae 62: 10-19.

Description: Filaments densely arranged, radiating from the centre of irregularly spherical to discoid, blue-green to olive-green colonies. Filaments isopolar, uniseriate, cylindrical, straight or flexuous, main filament generally wider than the lateral filaments which gradually taper to a bluntly conical end; with single or geminate false-branching. Sheath firm, lamellated, uncoloured to yellowish or yellow-brown, closed at the apex. Vegetative cells isodiametric to shorter than broad, slightly constricted at the cross walls. Heterocytes basal and intercalary, solitary, spherical to compressed-ovoid. Akinetes absent.

Origin of description: this description is from the original publication; it may have been modified slightly. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-06 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 neuter.

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. 06 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024