Suringariella Womersley & A.Bailey, 1987

Holotype species: Suringariella harveyana (J.Agardh) Womersley & Bailey

Original publication and holotype designation: Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. [1]-484, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.

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Description: Thallus erect, cylindrical, to 50 cm high, simple or with a few branches from near the base. Attached to the substratum, which is often sand-covered rock, with a small discoid holdfast. Medulla multi-stranded, with the original longitudinal filaments largely obscured by branched hyphal filaments. Cortex consisting of a dense cover of 1-4 times branched straight assimilatory filaments, phaeophycean hairs, and reproductive organs. Unilocular sporangia ovoid to pyriform, borne at the base of assimilatory filaments. Plurilocular sporangia elongate-ovoid to conical, divided into irregularly positioned locules when mature, borne on mid to basal cells of assimilatory filaments. Life history not known. Endemic to southern Australia.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-20 by M.D. Guiry.

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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024