Entonema Reinsch, 1875
Lectotype species: Entonema penetrans Reinsch
Original publication: Reinsch, P.F. (1875 '1874/75'). Contributiones ad algologiam et fungologiam. Vol. 1 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-103, [104, err.], 131 plates [I-III, IIIa, IV-VI, VIa, VII-XII, XIIa, XIII-XX, XXa, XXI-XXXV, XXXVa, XXXVI (Melanophyceae); I-XLII, XLIIa, XLIII-XLVII, XLVIIa, XLVIII-LXI (Rhodophyceae); I-XVIII (Chlorophyllophyceae); I-IX (Fungi)]. Norimbergae [Nürnberg]: Typis Theodor Haesslein.
Request PDFType designated in: Kylin, H. (1947). Die Phaeophyceen der schwedischen Westküste. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 43(4): 1-99, 61 figs, 18 pls.
Description: Plants referred to this genus are endophytic and consist of branched filaments creeping in the cell walls of various red and/or brown algae. The filaments may form a syntagma and then the plant becomes a monostromatic disc. Much confusion has arisen about this genus. There is no doubt that Reinsch also has included some green algae, for example Entonema heteromorphum Reinsch and E. pycnomonae Reinsch. In the literature there has been various concepts of the genus. Hamel (1939) used the name for plants with an endophytic prostrate system with well-developed erect filaments and included for example Entonema clandestinum (Cronan frat.) Hamel, today considered as belonging to Elachista. Kylin (1947) considered Entonema penetrans Reinsch as being the typical Entonema and this species is listed as the lectotype in Farr and others (1979). Plants composed of endophytic, irregularly branched filaments, but without erect filaments, could according to Kylin be accommodated in Entonema. However, with regard to one character, the latter author is self-contradictory. Reinsch (1875, tab. 1, right figure) has clearly illustrated erect filaments from the endophytic part. These filaments are presumably not in the process of being transformed into plurilocular sporangia. There is no doubt that many plants referred to Entonema are microthalli of well-known macrothalli, others can be referred to e.g. Streblonema. Entonema must be considered a poly- and paraphyletic genus with uncertain taxonomic position as a consequence.
Information contributed by: P. M. Pedersen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-20 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.
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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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