Tayloriella Kylin, 1938
Holotype species: Tayloriella tenebrosa (Harvey) Kylin
Original publication and holotype designation: Kylin, H. (1938). Verzeichnis einiger Rhodophyceen von Südafrika. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, N.F., Avd. 2, 34(8): 1-26, 10 figs, 8 pls.
Request PDFDescription: Thalli polysiphonous, cylindrical, with both prostrate and erect branch systems; prostrate system attached by rhizoids often from proximal ends of ventral pericentrals, not cut off in some species; rhizoids sometimes in groups, arising from pericentrals on the same segment (Wynne 1985). Erect branches up to 15 cm long, exogenously forming radially arranged branchlets, these branchlets becoming bilaterally arranged in more proximal regions. Growth monopodial, often with abaxial determinate laterals overtopping main branch apex; branchlets formed in regular sequence but usually not on every segment, in some species short determinate branchlets clothe axes. Some species with determinate laterals having monosiphonous apices; trichoblasts not present on vegetative axes. 4-16 pericentral cells, sometimes a variable number on the same plant, uncorticated. Reproductive branches replacing determinate laterals. Tetrasporangia one per segment in straight, often short, series. Cystocarps spheroid to urceolate, on short stalks. Spermatangial capitula known for one species (Wynne 1985), narrow conical, with several apical sterile cells in an attenuating filament.
Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-07 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.
Comments: Type species from South Africa; other species from Galapagos Is., & Pacific Central America north to Alaska. Tayloriella is similar to Pterosiphonia but differs in having little or no congenital fusion of proximal branch segments with axes.
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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. 07 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
