Jantinella Kylin, 1941

Holotype species: Jantinella verruciformis (Setchell & McFadden) Kylin

Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1941). Californische Rhodophyceen. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 37(2): 1-51, 7 figs, 13 plates.

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Description: Thallus an adelphoparasite forming white nodules on Chondria; colorless minute cushions on host branch form short, erect monopodial, polysiphonous branches. Host penetrated by rhizoidal cells with pit connections to host cells. Erect branches with 5-7(8) pericentral cells which sometimes dividing transversely; each segment with an exogenously produced polysiphonous branch or trichoblast produced in a 2/5 right spiral. Procarp with two groups of sterile cells retaining their identity in post-fertilization stages; cystocarps globose, broadly ostiolate and often with a trichoblast. Spermatangia on pericentral cells developing on branched trichoblasts, sometimes also developing on axes; spermatangial branches oval or circular in section but may become flattened with coalescence of several male branches; without sterile marginal cells. Tetrasporangia, 1 on each pericentral cell, 5-6 per segment, in stichidioid branchlets.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. 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: In southern California, Baja California and the Gulf of California, only on Chondria californica.

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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 25 April 2024