Doxodasya (F.Schmitz) Falkenberg, 1901
Holotype species: Doxodasya bolbochaete (Harvey) Falkenberg
Original publication: Falkenberg, P. (1901). Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte Heraus gegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, Monographie 26. pp. i-xvi, 1-754, 10 figs, 24 pls. Berlin: Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohns.
Request PDFType designated in: Womersley, H.B.S. (2003). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. [1]-533, 226 figs, 2 pls. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.
Description: Erect monopodial thalli with radial branching. Axes polysiphonous with 4 pericentrals, cylindrical and corticated; each segment bearing a persistent, pigmented trichoblast; adventitious trichoblast-like filaments may be formed by cortical cells. Trichoblasts or adventitious filaments often become determinate monosiphonous or polysiphonous ramuli that bear spirally arranged trichoblasts. Polysiphonous branches developing from the first proximal lateral on the trichoblast. Procarps borne on 2nd or 3rd segment of unbranched trichoblasts on polysiphonous ramuli; a 4-celled carpogongia branch and a single group of sterile cells is attached to the supporting cell. Cystocarps spheroid and with multilayers of cells. Spermatangial capitula formed on trichoblasts of ramuli, an intercalary region of the monosiphonous filament producing pericentrals and pseudopericentrals that develop an external layer of fertile male cells. Tetrasporangia borne in decussate pairs in stichidia that have a few reduced or no trichoblasts; stichidia developed from polysiphonous or monosiphonous filaments, tetrasporangia produced on the 2nd and 3rd pericentrals, 2 presporangial and 1 postsporangial cover cell.
Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-07 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: Subtidal, Western Australia and all of southern Australian coast, including Tasmania. Doxodasya distinguished from closely allied genera (Lophothalia, Haplodasya, and Gonatogenia) by number of pericentrals and character of trichoblasts.
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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. 07 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024
