Levringia Kylin, 1940
Holotype species: Levringia natalensis (Kützing) Kylin
Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1940). Die Phaeophyceenordnung Chordariales. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 36(9): 1-67, 30 figs.
Request PDFDescription: Thallus erect, epilithic, a few dm high, filiform and branched. Medulla multi-stranded, with meristematic region of the monopodially branched filaments intercalary, above and among the youngest ramifications. Medulla filaments terminated by an assimilatory filament. No internal downwardgrowing hyphae. Cortex of one kind of up to 3 mm long assimilatory filaments. Hyaline hairs absent. Plurilocular sporangia pod-shaped, multiseriate, borne at base of assimilatory filaments within cortex. Life history not known except for Cavassilas (1963) with confusing results. In tropical and warm-temperate seas of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. 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.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
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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