Wollastoniella E.M.Gordon, 1972

Holotype species: Wollastoniella myriophylloides (Harvey) E.M.Gordon

Original publication and holotype designation: Gordon, E.M. (1972). Comparative morphology and taxonomy of the Wrangelieae, Sphondylothamnieae and Spermothamnieae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany, Supplementary Series 4: 1-180, 63 figs, 3 tables.

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Description: Thallus prostrate and erect, branching irregular to alternately subdistichous. Axes with or without rhizoidal cortication, each cell with a whorl of 3-4 pseudodi- or pseudotri-chotomously branched determinate branchlets with mucronate tip. Indeterminate branches occasionally short, densely branched and filamentous (= villose). Procarps subterminal, 4-celled carpogonial branch and sterile cell on one (supporting cell) of 3 pericentral cells, auxiliary cell, cut off from supporting cell, leading to carposporophyte with terminal cells forming carposporangia. Fusion cell present, and surrounding involucral branches. Spermatangial heads on cells of villose branches. Tetrasporangia on modified branchlets near apices of short branches, tetrahedrally divided.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-06 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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: Known only from southern Australia, epiphytic on other algae and seagrasses or cast up.

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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 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024