Rhizopogonia Kylin, 1934

Holotype species: Rhizopogonia asperata (Harvey) Kylin

Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1934). Bemerkungen über einige Florideen aus Neu-Seeland. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund. Förhanlingar 4: 55-60.

Description: Dichotomously to flabellately lobed to several orders, centrally attached to a small membranous holdfast. Membranous. Upper surface usually scattered unevenly with soft, short slender bristles. Medulla a single (sometimes two) layer(s) of quadrate cells. Cortex to three cells thick; outer two layers of very small cells. Carposporangia in clusters, interspersed among filaments. Cystocarp immersed but causing localized swelling. Carpostome absent. Spermatangia undescribed. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia cruciate, scattered in cortex.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-06-28 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: A winter ephemeral apparently endemic to New Zealand.

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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 June 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024