Phacus tortus (Lemmermann) Skvortsov

Levanets, Anatoliy, Vuuren, Sanet Janse Van, Łukomska-Kowalczyk, Maja & Zakryś, Bożena, 2025, Annotated checklist of photosynthetic freshwater euglenids (Euglenales: Euglenaceae and Phacaceae) from southern Africa, Phytotaxa 710 (1), pp. 22-56 : 50

151. Phacus tortus (Lemmermann) Skvortsov

= Phacus longicauda var. tortus Lemmermann

BO: Cronberg et al. 1995 [Okavango Delta], as Ph. tortum (Lemmermann) Skvortsov. — MO: Rino 1969 [Maputo City: Mputo, garbage pool, abundant, 19 March 1969, J. Rino 368].— SA: Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 [Free State Province, vlei near Marseilles, 25 October 1926], as Phacus torta (Lemmermann) Skvortsov ], [Mpumalanga Province, vlei near Breyten, 6 November 1926], as f. brevicaudata et insecta Huber-Pestalozzi]; Huber-Pestalozzi 1930 [Western Cape Province, Knysna forest, Concordia Pool, a swamp about 30 m in diameter in a trough-shaped depression next to the road, overgrown with numerous hydrophytes, leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, 8 October 1926], as Phacus torta (Lemmermann) Skvortsov ; Hutchinson et al. 1932 [Mpumalanga Province, Ermelo District, Banagher Pan 2, 18 May 1928; Gauteng Province, Boksburg District, Brakpan 1, 11 March 1928; North-West Province, Potchefstroom District, Eliazar Pool, 27 May 1928; North-West Province, Potchefstroom Dam, 1 October 1927; Gauteng Province, Boksburg District, Rietfontein Pan 1, 14 February 1928], as Phacus longicauda var. torta Lemmermann forma Fritsch & Rich; Rich 1932 [Gauteng Province, Brakpan 1, pH above 7, February, March, April, May, June and November 1928, leg. G. Evelyn Hutchinsin and J. Schuurman; Gauteng Province, Roodepoort, Florida Lake, six monthly samples from July 1927 to January 1928, April and May 1929, leg. J. Schuurman], as Phacus longicauda var. torta Lemmermann forma Fritsch & Rich; Janse van Vuuren, Taylor 2015 [Sundays River].

Note. In Rino (1969: Pl. 4, fig. 17) it does not resemble P. tortus , which is very twisted.