Soranthera Postels & Ruprecht, 1840

Holotype species: Soranthera ulvoidea Postels & Ruprecht

Original publication and holotype designation: Postels, A. & Ruprecht, F. (1840). Illustrationes algarum in itinere circum orbem jussu imperatoris Nicolai I. Atque auspiciis navarchi Friderici Lütke annis 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 celoce Seniavin exsecuto in Oceano pacifico, inprimis septemtrionale ad littora rossica asiatico-americana collectarum. pp. [i-vi ], [i]- iv, 1-28 [1-2, index], [Latin:] [-iv], [1]-22, [1-2, index], 40 pls. Petropoli [St. Petersburg]: Typis Eduardi Pratz.

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Description: Plants epiphytic, attached by a penetrating base, spherical and solid when young, later becoming hollow, inflated, membranous, yellowish brown, up to 10 cm in diameter, polystichous, composed of inner large colorless cells and smaller pigmented peripheral cells. Unilocular sporangia in discrete, punctate sori associated with multicellular paraphyses and phaeophycean hairs, scattered on whole thalli, up to 100 _m in length. Each cell contains many disc-shaped chloroplasts with pyrenoids. Wynne (1969) cultured materials from California and showed heteromorphic life history. Unispores from field plants germinated into prostrate branched filaments forming uniseriate plurilocular sporangia. Plurispores developed into plethysmothalli forming plurilocular sporangia or parenchymatous globose macrothallus, although it did not mature. Sexual reproduction not confirmed. Distributed in cold and temperate water area of North Pacific Ocean. Summer annual.

Information contributed by: H. Kawai. 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024