Glaphyrymenia J.Agardh, 1885

Holotype species: Glaphyrymenia pustulosa J.Agardh

Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1885). Till algernes systematik. Nya bidrag. (Fjerde afdelningen.). Lunds Universitets Årskrift, Afdelningen for Mathematik och Naturvetenskap 21(8): 1-117, 1 pl.

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Description: Foliose, entire or lobed, rarely laciniate, with smooth or undulate, sometimes slightly dentate margin. Sessile, with small discoid holdfast. Gelatinous but firm. Medulla filamentous. Stellate cells present. Cortex thin, of short chains of very small, ovoid cells. Large inner cortical cells absent. Dioecious. One or two 3-celled carpogonial branches borne on rounded supporting cell with several subspherical subsidiary cells. Fusion cell producing several connecting filaments that contact separate auxiliary cells also bearing 3-4 subsidiary cells. Cystocarps protruding slightly, consisting of a central mass of slender gonimoblast filaments bearing numerous carposporangia, themselves not mixed with gonimoblast filaments. A loose pericarp present. Spermatangia superficial. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia small, cruciate, scattered in cortex.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-02-28 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: Saunders, G.W., Huisman, J.M., Vergés, A., Kraft, G.T. & Le Gall, L. (2017). Phylogenetic analyses support recognition of ten new genera, ten new species and 16 new combinations in the family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie Algologie 38(2): 79-132, 126 figs.

Comments: Subtidal. Known only from southern Australia, including Tasmania.

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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 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024