Bambusina Kützing ex Kützing, 1849, nom. cons.

Holotype species: Bambusina brebissonii Kützing

Currently accepted name for the type species: Bambusina borreri (Ralfs) Cleve

Original publication and holotype designation: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Description: Cells in short or long filaments. Cells small, elongate, barrel-shaped with shallow median constriction (isthmus), one species with ring of spine-tipped protuberances on each semicell and narrower isthmus. Cell in apical view biradiate, omniradiate or, rarely, triradiate. Cell wall with transverse rows of desmid-type pores and logitudinally plicate near cell ends. Chloroplast one per semicell, stellate in end view, with central pyrenoid. Nucleus in isthmus between chloroplasts. Asexual reproduction by transverse cell division. Forming replicate cell wall during new semicell morphogenesis. Secondary wall layers of daughter semicells produced on each side of primary wall, including folded section around projecting primary wall cylinder. Morphogenesis completed by expansion of new semicells, tearing apart primary wall cylinder and unfolding plicate secondary wall cylinder. Daughter cells remain attached by central section of primary wall. On mature cell wall, position of secondary wall fold marked by shallow groove. Sexual reproduction by conjugation. Usually one conjugating filament breaks apart. Gametangia pair at right angles, the semicell walls split apart at the isthmus and gametes fuze between gametangia. Mature zygospores spherical to ellipsoid with smooth or mamillate walls. Bambusina among filamentous algae in acidic, oligotrophic, aquatic habitats mixed with other filamentous algae. B. borreri cosmopolitan, other species more rarely collected in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia and North and South America.

Information contributed by: J.F. Gerrath. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-05-14 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Guiry, M.D. (2013). Taxonomy and nomenclature of the Conjugatophyceae (=Zygnematophyceae). Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 28: 1-29.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 14 May 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024