Desikacharyella B.Subramanian, 1984

Holotype species: Desikacharyella indica B.Subramanian

Original publication and holotype designation: Subramanian, B. (1984). The morphology and relationships of Desikacharyella indica gen. et sp. nov. - Ceramiaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) - from the southern east coast of India. Phykos 23: 3-14, 27 figs.

Description: Thallus filamentous; axes prostrate and erect, or exclusively erect, anchored by rhizoidal holdfasts. Erect axes with a single lateral branch per axial cell, occasionally whorled in lower cells. Vegetative propagation by bulbous unicellular propagules, these pedicellate and formed in branch axils. Spermatangia in heads. Procarp subapical, with 1 sterile periaxial cell and a supporting cell bearing a lateral carpogonial branch and a terminal sterile cell; auxiliary cell 1 per procarp. Mature carposporophyte with a large fusion cell. Sterile cells of procarp forming an involucre of 3 groups of elongated cells. Tetrasporangia tetrahedrally divided, adaxial on cells of lateral branches.

Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-12-17 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.

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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. 17 December 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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