Guiryella Huisman & Kraft, 1992

Holotype species: Guiryella repens Huisman & Kraft

Original publication and holotype designation: Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. (1992). Disposal of auxiliary cell haploid nuclei during post-fertilization development in Guiryella repens gen. et sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 31: 127-137, 20 figs.

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Description: DIAGNOSIS: Guiryella repens Huisman et Kraft, ge­ nus speciesque novum inter Ceramiaceas: axibus erectis atque prostratis, ecorticatis; his rhizoideis unicellularibus; illis spiratim ramosis, ramis succes­ sivis tertia parte fere rotatis; axibus fertilibus femi­ neis ramos indeterminatos terminantibus, cellula subterminali tres cellulas pericentrales ferente una earum pro cellulam sustinentem agente et cellulam sterilem ferente; post fecundationem duabus cellulis auxiliaribis ab cellula sustinenti atque alia pericen­ trali invicem scissis, utraque illarum nucleum diplo­ ideum ex carpogonio per cellulas conectentes parvas carpente, deinde cellulam propriam in quam nucleos illarum haploideos deponuntur et quae ipsa denique degenerat abscindente, deinde reliquiis auxiliario­ rum gonimoblastos omnino carposporangialem for­ matum dividentibus; cellula cellulae sustinentis ste­ rili et pericentralio sterili et cellula axis fertilis apicali quaque semel dividente: capitulis spermatangialibus compactis in cellulis lateraliorum: tetrasporangiis tetraedricis itidem dispositis: propagulis bicellular­ ibus ramos tetrasporophyti indeterminatos termi­nantibus.

'The creeping Guiryella,' a new genus and spe­cies of the Ceramiaceae; with erect and also pros­trate ecorticate axes, the latter with unicellular rhizoids, the former spirally branched, with suc­ cessive branches rotated by approximately 60°; female fertile axes terminate indeterminate branches, the subterminal cell bearing three peri­ central cells with one of them acting as the sup­ porting cell and bearing a sterile cell; two aux­ iliary cells arise after fertilization from the supporting cell and another pericentral cell, each receiving a diploid nucleus from the carpogo­nium by small connecting cells, then cutting off a special cell into which their haploid nuclei are deposited and which itself eventually degener­ ates, the remainder of the auxiliary cells then dividing to form gonimoblasts composed entire­ ly of carposporangia; the sterile cell on the sup­ porting cell, the sterile pericentral cell and the apical cell of the fertile axis each divide once; compact spermatangial heads arise on lateral branch cells; tetrahedral tetrasporangia in similar positions; two-celled propagules arise terminally on indeterminate branches of the tetrasporo­phyte.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-07-28 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.

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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. 28 July 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024