Rise of subgen. Rhoicosphenula Lange-Bert. to the genus level, and description of a new Gomphosphenia s. s. species from Puerto Rico
Author
Saber, Abdullah A.
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia Square, Cairo 11566 (Egypt) and MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology and Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento (Italy)
Author
Angeli, Nicola
MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy)
Author
Lange-Bertalot, Horst
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Biologicum, Max-von-Laue Straβe 13, 60438 Frankfurt (Germany)
Author
Kociolek, John P.
Museum of Natural History and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 (United States)
Author
Spitale, Daniel
MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy)
Author
Charles, Donald F.
Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (United States)
Author
Cantonati, Marco
MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Limnology & Phycology Section, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, I- 38123 Trento (Italy) and Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (United States) marco. cantonati @ muse. it (corresponding author)
cantonati@muse.it
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Cryptogamie, Algologie
2021
2021-09-29
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a13
journal article
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10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a13
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Rhoicosphenula paradoxa
(Lange-Bert.) Lange-Bert., Kociolek, A.A.Saber & Cantonati
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 2
,
3
)
Gomphosphenia paradoxa
Lange-Bert.
,
Nova Hedwigia
, 246, pls I-III (1995).
REGISTRATION. — http://phycobank.org/102719
Distribution
This is the
type
species of this still monotypic genus. It was collected from the Neotropical, black-water River Tec in
Venezuela
, at
1200 m
a.s.l., in the surroundings of the Roraima Tepui, a table-top mountain formed by remains of a large sandstone plateau that once covered the granite bedrock. Besides
R. paradoxa
comb. nov.
, the
type
material includes several representatives of the genera
Eunotia
,
Actinella
, and
Brachysira
, as well as other species indicating high humicacids content.