Stenogramma Harvey, 1840
Holotype species: Stenogramma californicum Harvey
Currently accepted name for the type species: Stenogramma interruptum (C.Agardh) Montagne
Original publication and holotype designation: Harvey, W.H. (1840). Algae. In: The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage; comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R. & A.S., in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. (Hooker, W.J. & Arnott, G.A.W. Eds), pp. 406-409. London: Henry G. Bohn.
Request PDFDescription: Plants reach 20 cm in length and consist of flattened, linear, subdichotomous blades, with or without marginal proliferations, borne directly or with a short terete stalk on a crustose base. Spermatangia form in sori on the major axes. Procarps are aggregated into a long, linear sorus running interruptedly down the centers of the blades like a midrib, the cystocarps developing within the sori as a more-or-less continuous fruiting body. Pericarps differentiate along the "midribs" and are faintly ostiolate. Tetrasporangial nemathecia form in patches scattered over the fronds.
Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-03-06 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 neuter.
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: Distribution: The type occurs from Britain to Morocco and the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic, from British Columbia to Baja California and Japan in the Pacific, and from numerous scattered localities in the Southern Hemisphere such as South Africa, southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile (Ramirez and Rojas 1988). Plants generally occur on rock in subtidal habitats. The second species is rarely collected and endemic to southern Australia.
Furneaux & Miller (1985) have found that gel extracts of Stenogramma do not match the structure of any known carrageenan fraction.
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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. 06 March 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
