Sporocladus Kuckuck, 1897
Holotype species: Sporocladus fragilis Kuckuck
Description: Short, uniseriate, little branched filaments. Vegetative cells with parietal chloroplast with few perforations. Sporangia develop from club-shaped lateral or apical cells. Quadriflagellate zoospores escape after dissolution of the upper sporangia wall. Only recorded among other small algae on rocks in the littoral of Heligoland, North Atlantic.
Information contributed by: R. Nielsen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2009-10-12 by Stephen Cusack.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
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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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Stephen Cusack in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 12 October 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024
