Anthophycus Kützing, 1849

Holotype species: Anthophycus longifolius (Turner) Kützing

Original publication and holotype designation: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Description: To 1m or more in length, with conical holdfast producing 1 to several perennial main axes (to 18 cm), foliose when young, becoming terete. Primary laterals to 60 cm long, 0.5 to 4.5 cm wide, regularly or irregularly serrated, foliose, strongly compressed with an obvious midrib, arising distichously from the main axis margin (branching pattern obscured in older plants). Several primary laterals produced annually leaving stumps to 2 mm long. Several of the larger subtending laterals bear a single ovoid vesicle, proximally. Growth from a 3-sided apical cell in a funnel-shaped apical pit. Fertile secondary laterals produce systems of branched, narrow terete axes, in the axils of subtending laterals, bearing clusters of short (to 3 mm) terete elongate receptacles. Plants dioecious, with one egg produced per oogonium.

Information contributed by: J.J. Bolton. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-21 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

Comments: Single species, A. longifolius, which dominates large areas of the shallow subtidal from the Cape Peninsula eastwards to Mozambique.

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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. 21 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024