Trachelomonas oblonga Lemmermann

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 : 36-37

75. Trachelomonas oblonga Lemmermann

= Chrysostomum oblongum (Lemmerman) Frenguelli , Trachelomonas proxima Skvortsov, T. oblonga Lemmermann var. truncata Lemmermann , T. truncata (Lemmermann) Skvortzov

MO: Rino 1972 [Maputo City: Maputo, Inhaca Island, in the rice fields, south from the airfield, 4 July 1970, J. Rino 472], as Trachelomonas oblonga Lemmermann var. truncata Lemmermann. — SA: Fritsch 1918 [Western Cape Province, Orangezicht (now Oranjezicht, Cape Town suburb) above Cape Town, mountain spring in a hollow, forming a small pond, thickly overgrown with a waterweed, 91 m a.s.l., 24 March 1908, leg. E.P. Phillips; Western Cape Province, Cape Town, pond in Municipal Gardens, growing on stems and petioles of Limnanthemum indicum Thw. , 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips; same location, algae growing on the brick walls of the pond, 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips]; Fritsch, Stephens 1921 [Eastern Cape Province, Kentani (now Centane), in pools, partly sheltered by sedges, formed by a slow-running spring, 28 August 1912, leg. A. Pegler; Eastern Cape Province, Kentani (now Centane), in a stream, stagnant through drought, reddish-yellow deposit due to iron bacteria, 24 September 1912, leg, A. Pegler]; Fritsch, Rich 1924 [KwaZulu-Natal Province, Pietermaritzburg, Victoria Bridge, in stagnant water in quarry, 5 June 1915, leg. J.W. Bews], as Trachelomonas oblonga Lemmermann forma major ; Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 [Western Cape Province, pool near Caledon, 26 September 1926; Mpumalanga Province, vlei near Breyten, 6 November 1926]; 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]; Janse van Vuuren, Levanets 2021 [Mpumalanga Province, Kruger National Park, small pool, 24°58′03.3″ S, 31°37′31.9″ E, leg. J.C. Taylor, April 2016].— ZI: Thomasson 1980 [Lake Kariba, sample 186, station 8640, 28 January 1970; Lake Kariba, sample 187, station 9540, 28 January 1970].

Note. We accept T. oblonga var. truncata as a synonym of T. oblonga , especially because there is no evidence to upgrade T. oblonga var. truncata to a species status.