Grunowago Lobban & Ashworth, 2022

Lobban, Christopher S., Ashworth, Matt P., Camacho, Terance, Lam, Daryl W. & Theriot, Edward C., 2022, Revision of Ardissoneaceae (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae) from Micronesian populations, with descriptions of two new genera, Ardissoneopsis and Grunowago, and new species in Ardissonea, Synedrosphenia and Climacosphenia, PhytoKeys 208, pp. 103-184 : 103

Grunowago Lobban & Ashworth gen. nov.

Description.

Valves linear to lanceolate, isopolar; uniseriate striae, virgae thickened internally and a prominent longitudinal costa under the midline. Annulus not apparent even on the valve-mantle junction. No pseudoseptum but continuous rim on valve border.

Type species.

Grunowago bacillaris (Grunow) Lobban & Ashworth.

Etymology.

Grunow + - ago (from agere, to move, perform, achieve, etc.; see Stearn 1973: 293) Named in recognition of the body of work of Albert Grunow (1826-1914), which included the original recognition of the type species in his study of a Honduras sample. The compound noun is feminine.

Included species.

Grunowago bacillaris (Grunow) Lobban & Ashworth, comb. nov.

Grunowago pacifica sp. nov.

Registration.

Phycobank http://phycobank.org/103244.