Kallymenia J.Agardh, 1842
Lectotype species: Kallymenia reniformis (Turner) J.Agardh
Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1842). Algae maris Mediterranei et Adriatici, observationes in diagnosin specierum et dispositionem generum. pp. [i]-x, 1-164. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Fortin, Masson et Cie.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.
Description: Foliose, entire or lobed, perforate or not, occasionally spinose, usually about as broad as tall. Subsessile or with short stipe. Holdfast discoid. Medulla predominantly filamentous but including many-armed isodiametric cells and stellate cells, which can contain refractive material. Cortex thin; cortical cells isodiametric, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Dioecious, where known. One or more 3-celled carpogonial branches borne on supporting cell with subsidiary cells. After fertilization, carpogonial fusion cell producing gonimoblast filaments that contact auxiliary cells on separate branches. Auxiliary cell ovoid, with 3-8 subspherical to ovoid subsidiary cells. Carposporangia in groups, intermixed with filaments. Cystocarps immersed. Spermatangia superficial. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia small, cruciate, scattered in cortex.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom.
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., Huisman, J.M., Vergés, A., Kraft, G.T. & Le Gall, L. (2017). Phylogenetic analyses support recognition of ten new genera, ten new species and 16 new combinations in the family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie Algologie 38(2): 79-132, 126 figs.
Comments: Usually subtidal. Cosmopolitan, primarily in temperate to subtropical waters
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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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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 September 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
