Gormaniella L.A.Lewis, T.Robison & F.W.Li, 2022

Holotype species: Gormaniella terricola L.A.Lewis, T.Robison & F.W.Li

Original publication and holotype designation: Robison, T., Nelson, J.M., Hauser, D.A., Lewis, L.A. & Li, F.W. (2022). Dynamic plastid and mitochondrial genomes in Chaetopeltidales (Chlorophyceae) and characterization of a new chlorophyte taxon. American Journal of Botany 109(6): 939-951, 6 fig., 1 table.

Description: Green microalgae from terrestrial habitat. Vegetative cells are 8–14 ?m in diameter, uninucleate and walled. Cells contain a parietal chloroplast with 1 large pyrenoid with a traversing channel. Cells can be solitary or form packets of 2 or 4 cells due to successive bipartitioning, and the packets may accumulate into three?dimensional masses. Cell walls are thin in young cells, but thicken as cells age. Packets of cells in older cultures also accumulate an extensive, laminated, extracellular matrix. Distinct from Floydiella in forming an extensive extracellular matrix. Similar to the early life stages of Hormotilopsis, Koshicola, Oncosaccus, Chaetopeltis, and Pseuduvella, but lacking the extensive extracellular matrix stalks, the weak filaments, or blade? or disc?shaped thalli of those genera.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-07-15 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.

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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. 15 July 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 May 2024