Pugetia Kylin, 1925
Holotype species: Pugetia fragilissima Kylin
Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1925). The marine red algae in the vicinity of of the Biological Station at Friday Harbor, Wash. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, Ny Följd, Andra Afdelningen 21(9): 1-87, 47 figs.
Request PDFDescription: Foliose, orbiculate, entire, irregularly lobed to more or less palmately divided. Stipe short. Holdfast small, discoid. Medulla of large, isodiametric cells interspersed with branched filaments of small, pigmented cells. Cortex relatively thin, of isodiametric cells, progressively smaller toward cuticle. One or more 3-celled carpogonial branches borne on supporting cell, usually with additional subsidiary cells, which sometimes bear further cells. After fertilization, connecting filaments issuing from fusion cell involving supporting cell and subsidiary cells and fusing with separate auxiliary cell, which can also bear carpogonial branches and subsidiary cells. Carposporangia formed in clusters at ends of branches of gonimoblast filaments, which develop attached to the auxiliary cell. Cystocarp protruding slightly. Pericarp and carpostome lacking. Spermatangia undescribed. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia small, cruciate, scattered in cortex.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-06-28 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: 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: Widely distributed in temperate waters: Northeast Pacific: Alaska to California; Gulf of California; Galapagos Islands; New Zealand; South Africa; Tristan da Cunha.
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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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