Golenkiniopsis is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae. It is found in freshwater plankton worldwide, but is rare.
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Golenkiniopsis is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae. It is found in freshwater plankton worldwide, but is rare.
==Description== Golenkiniopsis consists of spherical to somewhat ovoid cells that are covered in spines. Cells are typically solitary, but rarely the spines may become tangled with each other and create a colony-like appearance. The spines are thickened at the base and taper towards the tip. Cells contain a single parietal, cup-shaped chloroplast with one spherical to ellipsoidal pyrenoid.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).