Vickersia Karsakoff, 1896

Lectotype species: Vickersia canariensis Karsakoff

Currently accepted name for the type species: Vickersia baccata (J.Agardh) Karsakoff

Original publication: Karsakoff, N. (1896). Sur deux Floridées nouvelles pour la flore des Canaries. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 8 4: 281-288, pl. 3.

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Type designated in: De Toni, G.B. (1924). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. VI. Florideae. Sectio V. Additamenta. pp. [i]-xi, [1]-767, frontispiece. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

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Description: Thallus prostrate and erect, axes ecorticate, each cell swollen, claviform, multinucleate and bearing a whorl of 1-4 determinate branchlets. Procarps subapical, 4-celled carpogonial branch on one (supporting cell) of 3 pericentral cells, post fertilization stages unknown, carposporophyte with terminal carposporangia surrounded by involucral filaments. Spermatangial heads on basal cells of branchlets. Tetrasporangia sessile, numerous (to 5O or more) on basal cells of 2-celled determinate branchlets, tetrahedrally divided. Distinctive in the unusually large number of sporangia on each fertile cell.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-12-05 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: Feldmann-Mazoyer, G. (1941 '1940'). Recherches sur les Céramiacées de la Mediterranée occidentale. pp. 1-510, 1-3, errata graviora , 191 figs, 4 pls [I-IV]. Alger: Imprimerie Minerva 5, Rue Clauzel.

Comments: Known from the Mediterranean, the Azores and the Canary Islands, epiphytic and on rocks above low-tide.

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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. 05 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024