Tinocladia Kylin, 1940

Holotype species: Tinocladia crassa (Suringar) 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, branched, to 30 cm high. Medulla composed of several sympodially branched longitudinal filaments and of downward growing hyphal filaments. Subcortex may be very broad, formed by branched filaments arising at right angles from medullary filaments. Cortex consisting of unbranched assimilatory filaments with cells cylindrical below, curved and moniliform above, phaeophycean hairs and reproductive organs. Unilocular sporangia clavate to subspherical, borne at the base of assimilatory filaments. Plurilocular sporangia transformed from upper cells of assimilatory filaments. Life history only studied in the edible T. crassa may be diplohaplontic and heteromorphic with a macroscopic sporophyte and dioecious microscopic "streblonematoid" gametophytes, or direct. Chromosome number in Japanese T. crassa is n=12, 2n=24. Distributed in Japan, southern California, southern Australia, New Zealand and southernmost South America.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-04-13 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: Hanyuda, T., Takeuchi, K. & Kawai, H. (2019). Tinocladia sanrikuensis sp. nov. (Ectocarpales s.l., Phaeophyceae) from Japan. Phycological Research 67(3): 221-227 [1-7], 3 figs, 1 table.

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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. 13 April 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024