Rhodochorton Nägeli, 1862 '1861', nom. et typ. cons.
Original publication: Nägeli, C. (1862 '1861'). Beiträge zur morphologie und systematik der Ceramiaceae. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1861(2): 297-415, 30 figs, 1 pl.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.
Description: Plants uniseriate filamentous, heterotrichous. Cells with one to many parietal chloroplasts, without pyrenoids. Life histories characterized by the absence of free carpospores, the tetrasporangium-bearing phase being produced directly from the fertilized carpogonium; morphologically distinct gonimoblasts present or absent; tetrasporophyte the dominant generation or reduced to a carpotetrasporophyte. Spermatangia in corymbose clusters or single/terminal. Carpogonia sessile or pedicellate, distinct carpogonial filament absent. Fertilized carpogonium divided by a transverse wall, both resulting cells giving rise to (reduced) gonimoblasts. Gonimoblasts forming tetrasporangia terminally or producing a multicellular tetrasporophyte. Tetrasporangia cruciately divided. Emended by J.T. Harper & G.W. Saunders (2002: 471).
Information contributed by: H. Stegenga. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-15 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475.
Comments: The type is a widespread epilithic species in the intertidal of temperate areas; the only other species with well documented life history (R. subimmersum Setchell and Gardner), a semi-endophyte from the northern Pacific.
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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 15 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
