Published August 16, 2018 | Version v1
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Cartusia Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak 2018, gen. nov.

  • 1. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA & Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Skeen Hall Room N 127, P. O Box 30003 MSC 3 Q, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
  • 2. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA & Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 31 Branišovská, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  • 3. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Skeen Hall Room N 127, P. O Box 30003 MSC 3 Q, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
  • 4. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118, USA

Description

Cartusia Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak gen. nov.

Description:— Filaments straight or flexuous, sometimes with more than one trichome in a common sheath, sometimes forming fascicles of trichomes, without false branching. Sheaths firm, thin, colorless. Trichomes not tapering, not or only slightly constricted at the cross-walls, up to 3.5 μm wide. Cells mostly shorter than wide up to isodiametric.

Etymology:— named for the ruins of the Cartusian Monastery in National Park Slovak Paradise, from which the reference strain was collected.

Type species:— Cartusia fontana Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak, comb. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Mai, Truc, Johansen, Jeffrey R., Pietrasiak, Nicole, Bohunická, Markéta & Martin, Michael P., 2018, Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and six new genera containing 14 species, pp. 1-59 in Phytotaxa 365 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.365.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704923

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oculatellaceae
Genus
Cartusia
Kingdom
Bacteria
Order
Synechococcales
Phylum
Cyanobacteria
Scientific name authorship
Mai, Johansen et Pietrasiak
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cartusia Mai, Johansen & Pietrasiak, 2018