Palmophyllum Kützing, 1847
Holotype species: Palmophyllum flabellatum Kützing
Currently accepted name for the type species: Palmophyllum crassum (Naccari) Rabenhorst
Original publication and holotype designation: Kützing, F.T. (1847). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. I, fasc. 3-5 pp. 17-36, pls 21-50. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers (in commission bei W. Köhne).
Request PDFDescription: Thalli green or olivaceous, highly multicellular, forming lobed or unlobed prostrate thalli to ca 50 cm diameter and 1-3 mm thick with many thousands of cells in mucilaginous matrix; cells dispersed or grouped in 2s or 4s, more numerous near thallus margin. Species with or without conspicuous surface striations and with or without striations or fibrous structures within mucilaginous matrix. Cells spherical, 5-15 µm in diameter, single or in pairs, with thin cell walls, and usually widely dispersed in matrix with cells more dense toward upper surface. Cells uninucleate; single chloroplast cup-shaped and parietal without pyrenoid and stigma. Asexual reproduction, flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown.
Information contributed by: D. Garbary, A. Couté; revised by M.D. Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-12-26 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Zechman, F.W., Verbruggen, H., Leliaert, F., Ashworth, M., Buchheim, M.A., Fawley, M.W., Spalding, H., Pueschel, C.M., Buchheim, J.A., Verghese, B. & Hanisak, M.D. (2010). An unrecognized ancient lineage of green plants persists in deep marine waters. Journal of Phycology 46(6): 1288-1295.
Comments: Palmophyllum species are found subtidally in marine environments in warm temperate to tropical waters; reported from the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas and from the Kermadec and Poor Knights Islands of New Zealand. Several additional species described from Mediterranean; however, Feldmann (1937) considered these as varieties of P. crassum. Ultrastructural studies of P. umbracola confirm the absence of a pyrenoid and a stigma. Cells with one (occasionally 2-3) prominent dictyosomes. An abundant orange pigment present, but remains to be characterized. Family assignment will remain provisional until flagellated stages and reproductive morphology have been studied.
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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. 26 December 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024
