Rindifilum ramosum gen. nov., sp. nov., a new freshwater genus within the Ulvales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta)
Author
Malavasi, Veronica
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Benátská 433 / 2, 128 00, Prague (Czech Republic) veronica. malavasi 80 @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
Author
Klimešová, Michala
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Benátská 433 / 2, 128 00, Prague (Czech Republic) veronica. malavasi 80 @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
Author
Lukešová, Alena
Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Soil Biology, Na Sádkách 702 / 7, 370 05, České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Author
Škaloud, Pavel
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Benátská 433 / 2, 128 00, Prague (Czech Republic)
text
Cryptogamie, Bryologie
2022
2022-06-23
20
8
125
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2022v43a8
journal article
10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2022v43a8
1776-0992
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Rindifilum ramosum
gen. nov., sp. nov.
Rindifilum ramosum
gen. nov., sp. nov.
with the features of the genus. Thalli up to
0.5 mm
consist of prostrate and erected/upright filaments. The vegetative cells of prostrate system are composed by rounded/spherical, pear-shaped or ovoid cells, up to 13.5 µm wide and 13.2 µm long. The pyriform cells of the prostrate system first develop into characteristic “hammer-shaped cells”, up to 77.6 µm long and 33 µm wide. Later on, filaments up to 147 µm long and 4 µm wide are produced. The chloroplast is parietal, usually filling the cell, with a spherical pyrenoid.
HOLOTYPE
. — Strain
SAG 2052
permanently cryopreserved in a metabolically inactive state (cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen) in the Culture Collection of Algae of the Charles University in Prague (CAUP) as the item CAUP J 1701. Living cultures of the alga are maintained at the SAG, University of Göttingen, Germany, with the strain code SAG 2052 (ex-type culture). Illustrations of the holotype are provided in
Figure 3.
FIG. 2. — Light microscopic morphology of
Rindifilum ramosum
gen. nov., sp. nov.
A -Q
, SAG 2052;
R
,
S
, SAG 2039. Scale bars: 5 μm.
TYPE LOCALITY. —
Switzerland
. Davos Valley, bank of brook Drusatschabächel,
1570 m
a.s.l.,
46°49’18”N
,
9°51’36”E
(
1000 m
).
HABITAT. — Photobiont from lichen
Verrucaria margacea
(Wahlenb.) Wahlenb.
ETYMOLOGY. — L. neut. adj.
ramosum
, branching, referring to the morphology of the cells.