Phayaothrix Tawong & T. Nishimura

Tawong, Wittaya, Nishimura, Tomohiro, Pongcharoen, Pongsanat, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Kucharoenphaibul, Siriwat, Sunpapao, Pathipat, Pongpadung, Piyawat & Ponza, Supat, 2024, Molecular characterization uncovering a novel genus of tapering-filamentous cyanobacteria from Thailand: Phayaothrix lacustris gen. & sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanophyta), Phytotaxa 647 (1), pp. 34-52 : 38

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.647.1.3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13214100

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Phayaothrix Tawong & T. Nishimura
status

gen. nov.

Phayaothrix Tawong & T. Nishimura gen. nov. ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 )

Description: —Filaments in groups not surrounded by abundant mucilage or gelatin, without radial disposition, entangled, long, branches rare, sheath present, usually thin and hyaline, opened at the apex, trichomes heteropolar or isopolar, usually constricted, cells of variable length, shorter or longer than wide, basal or intercalary heterocytes, single or in pairs, variable in shape, necridia present, akinetes absent, benthic inhabitant.

Type locality:— THAILAND. Phayao: Mueang Phayao , freshwater rock in Phayao Lake (Kwan Phayao), 21 June 2020 .

Type species: — Phayaothrix lacustris .

Etymology: —The name of the genus, Phayaothrix , refers to a cyanobacterial filament from Phayao Lake, Thailand, from which the type strain of this filamentous cyanobacterium was isolated.

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