Kaiparowitsia Mai, Johansen et Bohunická, 2018

Mai, Truc, Johansen, Jeffrey R., Pietrasiak, Nicole, Bohunická, Markéta & Martin, Michael P., 2018, Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species, Phytotaxa 365 (1), pp. 1-59 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.365.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13704900

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BFDE64-6C43-FFA9-009A-FD32FBBFFC3B

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scientific name

Kaiparowitsia Mai, Johansen et Bohunická
status

gen. nov.

Kaiparowitsia Mai, Johansen et Bohunická gen. nov.

Description:— Filaments flexuous, entangled, sometimes fasciculated, with one to several trichomes in a common sheath, unbranched. Sheath thin, colorless. Trichomes bent, flexuous, entangled, sometimes forming nodules, less than 2.0 μm wide. Hormogonia and necridia absent. Cells cylindrical, longer than wide, sometimes with outgrowths. End cells rounded.

Etymology:— Named for the Kaiparowits Plateau, a major geological formation in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from which the taxon was isolated.

Type species:— Kaiparowitsia implicata Mai, Johansen et Bohunická sp. nov.

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