Rhipiliella Kraft, 1986

Holotype species: Rhipiliella verticillata Kraft

Original publication and holotype designation: Kraft, G.T. (1986). The green algal genera Rhipiliopsis A. & E.S. Gepp and Rhipiella gen. nov. (Udoteaceae, Bryopsidales) in Australia and the Philippines. Phycologia 25: 47-72, 54 figs, 1 table.

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Description: Thallus small, to 15 mm. long, consisting of subcircular to irregularly oval, monostromatic cyathiform blades, 2-8 mm. diameter, borne on a smooth monosiphonous stalk. Blade siphons dichotomous, unconstricted at dichotomies, and linked to adjacent siphons by alternating, distichous, blunt-conical lateral outgrowths that fuse at their tips by a ring of wall thickening. Heteroplastic; both types of plastids small (2-3 µm diam.) and subspherical. Genus resembles certain monostromatic Rhipiliopsis species in morphology, but differs in that blades are deciduous, leaving rings of abscission scars at points along stalk as successive crops of blades are produced and shed. Reproduction unknown.

Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-02-28 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: Cremen, C.M., Leliaert, F., West, J.[A.], Lam, D.W., Shimada, S. Lopez-Bautista, J.M. & Verbruggen, H. (2019). Reassessment of the classification of Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast phylogenomic analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 397-405, 2 figs.

Comments: Rhipiliella is recorded only from southern end of Great Barrier Reef, where it occurs on encrusting coralline algae, lining the back walls of reef undercuts, from -3 to -11m.

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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. 28 February 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024