Gloiopeltis J.Agardh, 1842

Holotype species: Fucus tenax Turner

Currently accepted name for the type species: Gloiopeltis tenax (Turner) Decaisne

Original publication and holotype designation: 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.

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Description: Cylindrical to slightly compressed, sparsely subdichotomously branched. Short and tufted, with short stipe. Perennating from a basal crust. Uniaxial. Inner cortical cells relatively large, subspherical, becoming smaller toward cuticle. Rhizoids present. Dioecious. Two or more two-celled carpogonial branches and a single, proximally situated auxiliary cell borne in a cluster of branches on an inner cortical cell. Zygotic nucleus transferred to auxiliary cell via a connecting filament. Cystocarp projecting above thallus surface. Most cells of carposporophyte becoming carposporangia. Spermatangia superficial. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia cruciate, scattered in cortex.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-02-19 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: Gloiopeltis furcata yields an extract known as funoran, which thickens but does not gel in the presence of potassium ions. North Pacific Ocean: Philippines, China, Korea, Japan, U.S.S.R., Alaska to California.

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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. 19 February 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024