Incendia K.R.Dixon, 2013

Holotype species: Incendia crenata K.R.Dixon

Original publication and holotype designation: Dixon, K.R. & Saunders, G.W. (2013). DNA barcoding and phylogenetics of Ramicrusta and Incendia gen. nov., two early diverging lineages of the Peyssonneliaceae (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 52(1): 82-108.

Description: Thallus brittle, with hypobasal and internal calcification. Hypothallus monostromatic, composed of parallel filaments, giving rise to a consolidated dorsal perithallus of assurgent filaments. Ventral perithallus absent. Proximal perithallial cells forming secondary pit-connections with cells of adjacent filaments, often via radial or transverse cellular projections. Attachment by multicellular rhizoids. Tetrasporangial nemathecia raised, with simple paraphyses. Tetrasporangia cruciately divided, cut off the often-enlarged distal corners of the basal cells of paraphyses, with or without a single-celled pedicel. Carpogonial branches threecelled, borne laterally on basal cells of paraphyses. Auxiliary-cell branches three- to five-celled, borne laterally on basal cells of paraphyses, the suprabasal cell the auxiliary cell. Gonimoblasts arise directly from the septate connecting filament.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-09-26 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Dixon, K.R. (2018). Peyssonneliales. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 208-244. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.

Comments: From the Latin incendia, meaning fire, for the brilliant orange markings on the dorsal thallus surface of all known species.

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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. 26 September 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 April 2024