Mastigocoleopsis

Generic name: MASTIGOCOLEOPSIS Geitler 1925. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 41(2): 258.

Synonyms:

Diagnosis:

Type species: Mastigocoleopsis obtusa (Carter) Geitler 1925

Descriptions:
Komárek (1992): Thallous; thallus in a form of thin mats, composed from free, irregularly coiled filaments. Filaments with thick, firm, homogeneous or layered, diverging, colourless, sometimes transversally constricted sheaths. Trichomes uniserial with isodiametrical and more or less long, cylindrical cells with blue-green content, constricted at cross-walls. True branching common, lateral, of T- and v-type; branches long, continually tapering to the ends (but not forming terminal hairs; the hair-like ends are thin rests of empty sheaths ?), or short, cylindrical. Heterocytes and akinetes not known.

Genotype differences, molecular
data:

Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek (1992): Cells divide evidently crosswise and lateral before branching. Reproduction was not described, hormogonia were not observed.

Ultrastructure:

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

Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): The aerophytic type species was described from bark of trees in New Kaledonia and not recorded again.

Physiology and biochemistry:

Distribution, endemism, problematic citations:

Reference strain:

Infrageneric scheme, species concept:

List of species:

Mastigocoleopsis obtusa (Carter) Geitler 1925

Keys:

List of stains:

Drawings:

Komárek 1992

Application technology:

Literature:

	2.1 taxonomy: N. Carter 1922, Geitler 1925, Geitler 1932, Komárek 1992
	2.2 cytomorphology:
	2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
	2.4 biology and life cycles:
	2.5 ecology:

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