Portieria Zanardini, 1851

Holotype species: Portieria coccinea Zanardini

Currently accepted name for the type species: Portieria hornemannii (Lyngbye) P.C.Silva

Original publication and holotype designation: Zanardini, G. (1851). Algae novae vel minus cognitae in mari Rubro a Portiero collectae. Flora 34: 33-38.

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Description: Thallus recumbent to erect, growing from a discoid holdfast, often with several fronds growing from a common holdfast, or tangled among other algae with no obvious holdfast, with 1 or more percurrent axes that are richly alternately branched. Axes compressed to flattened, with inrolled apices. Structure uniaxial; each axial cell producing 3 or 4 periaxial cells, the first arising alternately and forming the primary filament of lateral branches. Medulla pseudoparenchymatous, consisting of large cells, grading to a smaller-celled cortex with prominent vesicular cells. Spermatangia borne in nemathecia on outer cortical cells. Carpogonial branches 3- or 4-celled; basal cell conspicuously enlarged; auxiliary cell branches 3 (–4) celled. Following fertilisation, carpogonial branch cells distal to the basal cell fusing, issuing 1 or 2 connecting filaments that fuse laterally with auxiliary cells. Gonimoblast initials arising from diploidised auxiliary cells and developing thallus-outward among nemathecial filaments, forming compartments of densely clustered carposporangia surrounded by a pericarp in swollen nemathecial areas. Tetrasporangia in nemathecia along margins and the faces of axes and laterals, irregularly zonately-cruciately divided [after Payo et al. (2011); Guiry & Guiry (2017)].

Information contributed by: K.R. Dixon & Huisman (2018). 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: Payo, D.A., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H., D'hondt, S., Calumpong, H.P. & De Clerck, O. (2013). Extensive cryptic species diversity and fine-scale endemism in the marine red alga Portieria in the Philippines. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 280: 20122660.

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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 19 April 2024