Mastigocladopsis

Generic name: MASTIGOCLADOPSIS Iyengar et Desikachary, 1946. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 24B: 158.

Synonyms:

Diagnosis:

Type species: Mastigocladopsis jogensis Iyengar et Desikachary 1946

Descriptions:
Komárek (1992): Thallous; filaments sheathed and true branched, flexuous, creeping on the substrate or tangled in clusters. Sheaths thin, colourless, not lamellated. Trichomes uniserial, constricted at cross-walls, with T- or reverse V-like branching; branches usually slightly thinner than main trichomes, sometimes slightly attenuated towards_the ends; terminal cells elongated, rounded. Cells more or less barrel-shaped (in main trichomes) up to cylindrical in branches, isodiametrical or distinctly longer than wide. Heterocytes intercalar (bipored), more or less spherical, wider than vegetative cells or lateral (unipo- red), attached to the vegetative cells or at the ends of short branches (with 1 or few cells). Akinetes not observed.

Genotype differences, molecular data:

Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek (1992): Cells divide crosswise or lengthwise before branching. Reproduction by trichome disintegration, hormogonia were not described.

Ultrastructure:

Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy:
Cyanophyceae, Stigonematales, Symphyonemataceae
Notes to taxonomy, misinterpretations:

Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): Both species are freshwater, growing attached to the stony substrate in streaming waters; tropical species (India, Tunisia).

Physiology and biochemistry:

Distribution, endemism, problematic citations:

Reference strain:

Infrageneric scheme, species concept:

List of species:

Mastigocladopsis fremyi Iyengar et Desikachary 1946
Mastigocladopsis jogensis Iyengar et Desikachary 1946
Mastigocladopsis repens Hernández-Mariné et al. 1992

Keys:

List of stains:

Drawings:

Komárek 1992

Application technology:

Literature:

	2.1 taxonomy: Iyengar & Desikachary 1946, Desikachary 1959, Komárek 1992
	2.2 cytomorphology:
	2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
	2.4 biology and life cycles:
	2.5 ecology:

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