Mesogloia C.Agardh, 1817
Holotype species: Mesogloia vermicularis C.Agardh
Currently accepted name for the type species: Mesogloia vermiculata (Smith) S.F.Gray
Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, C.A. (1817). Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]-xl, [1]-135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana.
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Description: Thallus erect, epilithic or epiphytic, cylindrical, branched, attached to substratum with a minute discoid holdfast. Axis with leading filament which is a monopodium terminating in an assimilatory filament. Meristematic region above and among youngest ramifications. Internal downward growing hyphae absent. Cortex composed of assimilatory filaments, phaeophycean hairs, and reproductive organs. Assimilatory filaments of one kind, curved, with cylindrical to barrel-shaped cells below and moniliform above. Unilocular sporangia globular to pyriform, borne at base of assimilatory filaments within cortex. Plurilocular sporangia not known. Life history alternation of heteromorphic generations with microscopic "streblonematoid" gametophytes and macroscopic sporophyte (Parke 1933). Gamete fusions not seen and sexuality in Mesogloia needs confirmation. Distributed in Europe from Spain to Norway.
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.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
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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