Tildeniella Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak, 2018
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.365.1.1 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13704894 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BFDE64-6C49-FFA3-009A-F9EAFC41F8A7 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Tildeniella Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak |
status |
gen. nov. |
Tildeniella Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak gen. nov.
Description:— Filaments with or without sheath, straight, flexuous or spirally coiled. Sheath thin, firm, colorless when present. Trichomes untapered, not constricted to slightly constricted at the crosswalls, with thin translucent crosswalls that are sometimes hardly visible, under 3 μm wide, without necrdia and hormogonia. Cells longer than wide. End cells rounded. Phylogenetically distinct from all other genera in the Oculatellaceae .
Etymology:— named for Josephine Tilden, a prominent American cyanobacteriologist of the mid-20th century.
Type species:— Tildeniella torsiva Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak sp. nov.
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