Cladothele Hooker f. & Harvey, 1845

Holotype species: Cladothele decaisnei Hooker f. & Harvey

Original publication and holotype designation: Hooker, J.D. & Harvey, W.H. (1845). Algae antarcticae, being characters and descriptions of the hitherto unpublished species of algae, discovered in Lord Auckland's Group, Campbell's Island, Kerguelen's Land, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn and other southern circumpolar regions, during the voyage of H.M. discovery ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London Journal of Botany 4: 249-276, 293-298.

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Description: Plants epiphytic on other algae, filiform, cylindrical, up to 6 cm in height and 0.5 mm in diameter, branched, parenchymatous, solid, partly uniseriate and partly multiseriate, often terminated with phaeophycean hair, composed of inner layer consisting of colorless large inner cells and cortical layer consisting of pigmented cells. Cells of outermost layer clavate or irregularly shaped, protruding from the surface. Unilocular sporangia ovoid, 60-70 _m in diameter protruded from the surface. Plurilocular sporangia formed among peripheral cells, often in sori. Phaeophycean hairs scattered. Distributed in South American cold water area. Heteromorphic but monophasic life history reported. Plurispores from macrothalli develop into fertile or sterile hecatonematoid microthalli, which form new macrothalli forming plurilocular sporangia (Asensi 1976).

Information contributed by: H. Kawai. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-10 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024