Treptacantha Kützing, 1843

Lectotype species: Treptacantha abies-marina (S.G.Gmelin) Kützing

Currently accepted name for the type species: Gongolaria abies-marina (S.G.Gmelin) Kuntze

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Type designated in: De Toni, G.B. (1891). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der echten Fucoideen. Flora 74: 171-182.

Description: Thallus attached by prostrate axes with haptera or a small basal disc, non-caespitose. Axes cylindrical to slightly compressed, simple or branched. Primary branches erect, cylindrical, radially ramified, smooth at least in the basal region, occasionally with small and widely spaced spiny appendages upwards. Higher order branches with spines (except inT. baccata, T. barbataand T. susanensis). Tophules present or absent. In cross section, cortical cells with thickened walls and square meristoderm cells. Spiny receptacles, with few (1–3) conceptacles located at the base of each fertile spine (except in T. nodicaulis and T. usneoides, with grouped conceptacles). Emend. (Orelana et al., 2019: 454).

Information kindly contributed by emend. Orellana, Hernández & Sansón (2019: [8]) but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gongolaria.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Molinari-Novoa, E.A. & Guiry, M.D. (2020). Reinstatement of the genera Gongolaria Boehmer and Ericaria Stackhouse (Sargassaceae, Phaeophyceae). Notulae Algarum 172: 1-10, 2 figures.

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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. 22 December 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024