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Wilmottia

Generic name: WILMOTTIA Strumecký, Elster et Komárek, 2011. Fottea 11(1): 62
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Diagnosis:
Struneský et al. (2011): Filamenta cylindrica, plus minusve recta vel paucim flexuousa, arcuata et circinata, non ramosa, solitaria vel ad multis consociata, plus minusve paralleliter in fasciculis repentes, in muco diffluenti t sine colore, aggregata; fila singularia cum vaginis facultativis, tenuis, firmis, apice apertis, non ramosis, hyalinis, incoloratis, non lamellosis. Trichoma recta el leviter curva et flexuosa, cylindrica, ad septa non vel paucim constricta, ad apices non attenuata, 3.0-6.0 μm lata; heterocytis vel akinetis carentibus. Cellulae
cylindricae, aeruginosae, saepe cum granulis sparsis ed distinctis, dispersis impletae; granula interdum ad septa transversalia agglomerata; cellulae plus minusve quadraticae vel paucim brevior vel longior uam latae; cellula apicalis cylindrica, cum cellulis vegetativis similis, terminaliter obtusa, rotundata
vel oblonge-conica, sine calyptra. Thylakoides asciculatae, praecipue parietales vel plus minusve paralleliter vel paucim irregulariter dispositae. Cellulae perpendiculariter dividuntur, zonis meristematicis bsentibus. Reproductio disintegratione trichomatibus in partes immobilibus, necridis carentibus.
Type species: Wilmottia murrayi (W. et .G.S. West) Strunecký, Elster et Komárek 2011 
Descriptions:
Strunecký et al. (2011): Filaments solitary or in clusters, cylindrical along the whole length, ± straight or slightly coiled, with facultative sheath, sometimes in dense, irregular fascicles with colorless and diffluent slime, not enveloped together by a firm, wide sheath. Sheaths around single trichomes thin, ± fine but firm, colorless, sometimes diffluent,
attached to trichomes. Never falsely branched. Trichomes cylindrical, not or only very slightly (exceptionally) constricted at cross walls, not attenuated or widened towards ends, without calyptra. Cells isodiametric, rarely shortened to ½ of their width, or up to 2× longer than wide, sometimes with different length in one and the same trichome, cylindrical, pale blue-green, usually with scattered larger granules, which are sometimes gathered more at cross-walls; apical cells cylindrical, rounded at the apex, without calyptra. Position of thylakoids in cells mostly parietal with few occasional irregularities (dependent on environmental conditions). 
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Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Strunecký et al. (2011): Cells divide in the trichome perpendicularly by binary fission; all cells (including apical) are able to divide, without meristematic zones; disintegration of trichomes into immotile segments, without ecridic cells. Phylogenetic similarity is about 90% against the Geitlerinema and 87.7-96.9 % to the nearest Phormidium clusters (Fig. 2). -
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Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy: Cyanophyceae,
Oscillatoriales, Phormidiaceae, Phormidioideae
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List of species:
Wilmottia murrayi (W. et .G.S. West) Strunecký, Elster et Komárek 2011. Fottea 11(1): 63

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  2.1 taxonomy: Strunecký et al. 2011
  2.2 cytomorphology:
  2.3 16S rRNA sequencing: Strunecký et al. 2011
  2.4 biology and life cycles:
  2.5 ecology: