Gloeophycus I.K.Lee & S.A.Yoo, 1979

Holotype species: Gloeophycus koreanus I.K.Lee & S.A.Yoo

Original publication and holotype designation: Lee, I.K. & Yoo, S.A. (1979). Gloeophycus koreanum gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Gloiosiphoniaceae) from Korea. Phycologia 18: 347-354.

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Description: Uniaxial, soft, mucilaginous, branched to four orders, with successively narrower orders of branches. Rhizoids surrounding large, central axial cell and four medially situated periaxial cells, each producing pseudodi- or -trichotomously ramifying determinate, corticating branches of cuneate to ovate cells. Hairs present. Monoecious. Carpogonium borne on an adventitious branch; terminal four cells representing supporting cell and three-celled carpogonial branch. Two-celled branch on supporting cell terminating in the auxiliary cell. Fertilized carpogonium fusing directly or via a connecting cell with auxiliary cell. A single gonimoblast initial producing the gonimoblast, which remains immersed in the thallus with no special development of surrounding tissue. Almost all cells developing into carposporangia. Spermatangia superficial, two or three (-six) cut off by oblique walls. Tetrasporophyte heteromorphic, crustose, producing cruciate tetrasporangia under short-day conditions. Spore germination: diprotocellular type.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-07 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 the northwest Pacific Ocean: Japan, Korea.

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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 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024