Rhodophysema Batters, 1900

Holotype species: Rhodophysema georgei Batters

Original publication and holotype designation: Batters, E.A.L. (1900). New or critical British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 38: 369-379, pl. 414.

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Description: Noncalcareous crust, epiphytic or epilithic. Basal layer bearing uniseriate filaments, loosely adjoined, unbranched or sparingly branched to two orders. Rhizoids and cuticle lacking. Female reproductive structures undescribed. One or two spermatangia produced by terminal cells of erect filaments. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia cruicate, attached basally, borne terminally on erect filaments just below or at surface of thallus. Spore germination: diprotocellular type.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-04-16 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: Saunders, G.W., Jackson, C. & Salomaki, E.D. (2017 '2018'). Phylogenetic analyses of transcriptome data resolve familial assignments for genera of the red-algal Acrochaetiales-Palmariales complex (Nemaliophycidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119: 151-159, 2 fig., 3 tables.

Comments: Hokkaido, Japan; eastern Greenland; eastern Canadian Arctic.

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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. 16 April 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024