Internoretia Setchell & N.L.Gardner, 1920

Holotype species: Internoretia fryeana Setchell & N.L.Gardner

Original publication and holotype designation: Setchell, W.A. & Gardner, N.L. (1920). Phycological contributions. I. University of California Publications in Botany 7: 279-324, pls 21-31.

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Description: This is a monotypic genus which seems to be endemic to inshore waters of British Columbia and northern Washington. It is endophytic in Smithora (red alga) and specimens of Internoretia fryeana appear as olive-green spots. The margin of the plant consists of free uniseriate filaments with mostly cylindrical to ovoid cells, each with one or 2 plate- or ribbon-like chloroplasts, each with a pyrenoid. In the center of the disc the filaments form pseudoparenchymatous parts. Parenchymatous knots occur. Plurilocular sporangia with few loculi formed by transformation of cells in the pseudoparenchymatous part. Unilocular sporangia unknown.

Information contributed by: P. M. Pedersen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-02-16 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: This species has previously been placed in the Chaetophoraceae, but O'Kelly (1983) has clearly shown that it is a brown alga.

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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. 16 February 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024