Cryptocallis J.M.Huisman & G.W.Saunders, 2018

Holotype species: Cryptocallis dixoniorum Huisman & G.W.Saunders

Original publication and holotype designation: Huisman, J.M. & Saunders, G.W. (2018). Sebdeniales. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 298-303. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.

Description: Thallus blade-like, prostrate, attached basally and secondarily from ventral surfaces by haptera. Structure multiaxial; inner medulla filamentous; outer medulla with 3 or 4 layers of ellipsoidal, ovoid or subspherical cells, grading to a 3- or 4-layered cortex of pigmented cells. Spermatangia on dorsal surface, terminal on elongate mother cells. Carpogonia arising directly from an intercalary supporting cell, presumably post-fertilisation connecting filaments arising directly from the carpogonium; auxiliary cells intercalary in separate cortical filaments; diploidisation by a single terminating connecting filament. Gonimoblast initial borne singly on auxiliary cell, cutting off several gonimolobe initials that produce clusters of rounded to angular carposporangia; gonimoblast initial fusing with the auxiliary cell, with small satellite cells encircling it proximal to the gonimolobes. Cystocarps communal within a conjoined nemathecial pericarp formed by extension of subcortical cells, the cortex remaining as an outer layer; gonimoblasts surrounded by a reticulum of filaments. Tetrasporangia arising in dorsal nemathecia, irregularly cruciately divided.

Origin of description: this description is from the original publication; it may have been modified slightly. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-05-27 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: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2019). Fourth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 62(4): 355-367 [1-13].

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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. 27 May 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024