Tricleocarpa Huisman & Borowitzka, 1990

Holotype species: Tricleocarpa cylindrica (J.Ellis & Solander) Huisman & Borowitzka

Original publication and holotype designation: Huisman, J.M. & Borowitzka, M.A. (1990). A revision of the Australian species of Galaxaura (Rhodophyta, Galaxauraceae), with a description of Tricelocarpa gen. nov. Phycologia 29: 150-172, 56 figs.

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Description: Gametophyte and tetrasporophyte generations heteromorphic. Gametophytes erect, calicified, dichotomously branched, multiaxial. Medulla filamentous; cortical filaments radial, dichotomously branched with larger inner cells and smaller surface cells. Spermatangia formed in cavities. Carpogonial branches 3-celled, replacing normal vegetative filaments; prior to fertilization the basal cells produces 4-5 branches that contribute to the pericarp of the immersed cystocarp, while the hypogynous cell cuts off 4 branches. Gonimoblast initiated directly from the carpogonium, growing outwardly, with or without contributing laterally to the pericarp. Carposporangia terminal and generating successive crops of carpospores from floor or floor and walls of the cystocarp. Tetrasporophytes filamentous, Acrochaetium-like; tetrasporangia lateral or terminal and cruciately divided.

Information contributed by: R.B. Searles. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-01-20 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: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.

Comments: In intertidal pools and subtidal in tropical to subtropical seas world-wide.

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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 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 April 2024