Reinboldia F.Schmitz, 1897

Holotype species: Reinboldia polycarpa F.Schmitz

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmitz, F. & Falkenberg, P. (1897). Rhodomelaceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher hervorragender Fachgelehrten, Teil 1, Abteilung 2. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds), pp. 421-480. Leipzig: verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

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Description: A genus of unknown habitat and distribution, represented only by a surviving fragment of the holotype, which was 16 cm in length. The basal attachment is unknown. The plant is an undivided, foliose blade covered on both surfaces by large protuberant cystocarps. Supporting cells are aggregated into papillar swellings on the blade and are monocarpogonial, the carpogonial branches usually 3(-4) celled. The position and nature of the auxiliary cells is unknown, although swollen, dark-staining cells within the carpogonial nemathecia suggest that the species may be non procarpic. Early carposporophyte stages are unknown, other than that gonimoblasts are surrounded by clusters of nutritive cells and filaments. Mature cystocarps are centrally hollow, composed of centripetal gonimoblast filaments arising from the surrounding hull and bearing single, terminal carposporangia. Spermatangia and tetrasporangia are unknown (Kraft, 1977).

The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-07 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: The status and true nature of this genus, which is similar in many details of vegetative and carpogonial construction to members of the Areschougiaceae, require investigation. Distribution: The type specimen was collected near Durban, Natal, South Africa.

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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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