Taxonomic revision of Ulva montana (Lightfoot 1777) and description of a new genus of Lightfootiella (Cyanophyceae, Chroococcaceae)

PETR HAŠLER; ALLAN PENTECOST; EVA JAHODÁŘOVÁ; PETR DVOŘÁK; ALOISIE POULÍČKOVÁ

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.362.2.4

Issue: Vol. 362 No. 2: 24 July 2018

Type: Article

Published: 2018-07-24

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.362.2.4

Page range: 173–186

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**Taxonomic revision of Ulva montana (Lightfoot 1777) and description of a new genus of Lightfootiella (Cyanophyceae, Chroococcaceae)**

PETR HAŠLER⁺⁻
ALLAN PENTECOST⁺⁻
EVA JAHODÁŘOVÁ⁺⁻
PETR DVOŘÁK⁺⁻
ALOISIE POULÍČKOVÁ⁺⁻

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic

The Freshwater Biological Association, Ferry Landing, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0LP, UK

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic

cyanobacteria chroococcales Gloeocapsa Gloeocapsopsis Lyngbye Agardh Brébisson 16S rRNA ITS Algae

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Abstract

We investigated type material of Ulva montana (Lightfoot 1777: 973) and compared it with the type material of Gloeocapsa magma Brébisson in Brébisson & Godey (1835: 40) and fresh material from nature. Our investigation indicates a separate evolutionary lineage of U. montana which possesses specific morphological features differing from the most closely related genera Gloeocapsa, Gloeocapsopsis and Chroococcus. We propose a new genus Lightfootiella gen. nov. based on the new combination Lightfootiella montana comb. nov. We revise the taxonomy of this entity and compare this species with Gloeocapsopsis magma sensu (Brébisson) Komárek & Anagnostidis 1986.