Schmidleinema

Generic name: SCHMIDLEINEMA De Toni, 1936. Noter. Nomencl. Alg. 8: 5.

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Diagnosis:

Type species: Schmidleinema indicum (Schmidle) De Toni 1936 - Three species.

Descriptions:
Komárek (1992): Thallous; thallus forms mats on the substrate or mixed with other algae, composed from basal, prostrate filaments creeping on the substrate and more or less erected branches; basal trichomes torulous, uni- or multiserial, true or falsely branched, constricted at cross walls, prostrate or semicircularly bent; branches cylindrical, uniseriate, creeping or erected, mainly falsely, repeatedly, tolypotrichoid branched. Sheaths distinct, limited, thick, lamellated, closed or funnel-like open at the apex, sometimes telescopic, usually (in some parts) yellow-brown. Cells barrel-shaped or almost cylindrical, pale or olive-green, slightly or regularly granular, sometimes with distinct solitary granules. Heterocytes develop intercalarly, solitary or in pairs, usually unipored (before false branching), cylindrical, hemispherical or almost spherical. Akinetes not found.

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Ultrastructure:

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

Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): Tropical aerophytic and freshwater species. The type species is known from humid, subaerophytic biotopes (epiphytic on liverworts, tree-trunks, on humid walls, etc.) in India, two other species are known from swamps in Antilles (alkaline swamps in Cuba; Guadeloupe).

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Infrageneric scheme, species concept:

List of species:
Schmidleinema indicum (Schmidle) De Toni 1936

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List of stains:

Drawings:

Komárek 1992

Application technology:

Literature:

	2.1 taxonomy: Desikachary 1959, Komárek 1989, Komárek 1992
	2.2 cytomorphology:
	2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
	2.4 biology and life cycles:
	2.5 ecology:

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