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Ercegovicia

Generic name: ERCEGOVICIA de Toni 1936
Synonyms:
BRACHYNEMA Ercegović 1931
Diagnosis:
Type species:  Ercegovicia litoralis (Ercegović) de Toni 1936 [= Brachynema littorale Ercegović 1931]
Description:
Komárek & Anagnostidis (1998): Thallus epilithic, in the form of small, microscopic, slightly globular or formless colonies, consisting of basal groups of irregular-rounded, ellipsoidal or pear- shaped cells, which are irregularly arranged and mainly enveloped by stratified sheaths (gloeocapsoid stages); later very short, only few-celled pseudofliaments are formed, which grow parallel to one another and vertically from basal clusters, and are pseudodichotomously or pseudotetrachotomously diversified;
sheaths around cells within pseudofliaments, or enveloping also the whole row of cells (pseudofilaments), sometimes stratified.
Genotype differences, molecular
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Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek & Anagnostidis (1998): Cells in basal parts divide in various planes, apical cells sometimes divide into baeocytes. Still a problematic and not revised monotypic genus.
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Infrageneric scheme, species concept:
List of species:
Ercegovicia litoralis (Ercegović) de Toni 1936
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Literature:

  2.1 taxonomy: Ercegović 1931 (sub Brachynema), Fremy 1934 (sub Brachynema), de Toni 1936, Geitler 1942, Kosinskaja 1948, Komárek & Anagnostidis 1998
  2.2 cytomorphology:
  2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
  2.4 biology and life cycles:
  2.5 ecology: