Aphanta Tronchin & Freshwater, 2007

Holotype species: Aphanta pachyrrhiza Tronchin & Freshwater

Original publication and holotype designation: Tronchin, E.M. & Freshwater, D.W. (2007). Four Gelidiales (Rhodophyta) new to southern Africa, Aphanta pachyrrhiza gen. et sp. nov., Gelidium profundum sp. nov., Pterocladiella caerulescens and P. psammophila sp. nov.. Phycologia 46(3): 325-348, 49 figs, 4 tables.

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Description: Thallus cartilaginous, with a stoloniferous holdfast bearing flattened erect axes that are simple or distichously branched, irregular to pinnate, opposite to subopposite, up to 3 orders. Branches lanceolate to ligulate, basally constricted, with prominent or emarginate apices; flattened upright branches sometimes anastomosing to one another and to the stolon; stolon terete and often longer than the upright axes that develop at irregular intervals along its length; nodes common on stolon resulting from regrowth after injury; prostrate branches from the stolon producing brush-type attachment haptera. Reproduction unknown.

Information contributed by: Huisman, Boo & Boo (2018).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-09-26 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Huisman, J.M., Boo, G.H. & Boo, S.M. (2018). Gelidiales. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 245-264. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.

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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. 26 September 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024