Platysiphonia Børgesen, 1931

Holotype species: Platysiphonia miniata (C.Agardh) Børgesen

Currently accepted name for the type species: Platysiphonia delicata (Clemente) Cremades

Original publication and holotype designation: Börgesen, F. [Børgesen, F.] (1931). Sur Platysiphonia nov. gen. et sur les organes mâles et femelles du Platysiphonia miniata (Ag.) nov. comb. (Sarcomenia miniata (Ag.) J. Ag.). In: Recueil de Travaux Cryptogamiques dédiés à Louis Mangin. (Anon. Eds), pp. 21-29. Paris: Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle.

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Description: Thallus erect or with prostrate and erect axes, richly branched; branches compressed, in some species corticated. Structure with 4 pericentral cells; lateral pericentral cells each cutting off 2 flanking cells, these remaining undivided in vegetative parts. Reproduction mostly as for the family. Pericarp with erect filaments each cutting off 2 outer pericentral cells. Spermatangial axes with sterile transverse pericentral cells and flanking cells.

Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-07-10 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: Díaz-Tapia, P., Pasella, M.M., Verbruggen, H. & Maggs, C.A. (2019). Morphological evolution and classification of the red algal order Ceramiales inferred using plastid phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 137: 76-85, fig. 3.

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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. 10 July 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024