Chordariopsis Kylin, 1940

Holotype species: Chordariopsis capensis (C.Agardh) Kylin

Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1940). Die Phaeophyceenordnung Chordariales. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 36(9): 1-67, 30 figs.

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Description: Thallus erect, cylindrical, to 20 cm high, arising from a small discoid holdfast, densely branched with laterals arising at right angles. Apices dome-shaped. Thallus in older parts hollow. Medulla in younger parts a solid syntagma with a leading central filament growing from a -sided apical cell. Downwardgrowing hyphae absent. Cortex at apices and in vegetative thallus parts a single layer of small rectangular cells, in fertile parts this layer bears a dense cover of one two two-celled clavate paraphyses and ovoid unilocular sporangia. Plurilocular sporangia and phaeophycean hairs absent. Life history not known.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-06-26 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: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

Comments: Reported from South Africa, southernmost South America, and some subantarctic Islands.

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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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