Flabellonema Skinner & Womersley, 1984

Holotype species: Flabellonema codii Skinner & Womersley

Original publication and holotype designation: Skinner, S. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1984). Southern Australian taxa of Giraudiaceae (Dictyosiphonales, Phaeophyta). Phycologia 23: 161-181, 57 figs, 2 tables.

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Description: Plants epiphytic, composed of irregular fan-like disc with a few erect thalli. Basal disc consisting of single layer of closely appressed filaments of pigmented cells with a marginal meristem. Erect thalli partly polystichous, arising from individual cells of the basal disc, filiform, terete, patent, occasionally branched, tapering very gradually, with tiers of 2 or 3 cells containing many disc-shaped chloroplasts with pyrenoid. Terminal phaeophycean hairs present on erect thallus. Vegetative reproduction occurs by stolon-like filaments. Plurilocular sporangia intercalary, subterminal or terminal on erect thallus, ectocarpoid or intercalary. Each locule has its own release pores. Unilocular sporangia unknown. Life history unknown. Very close to Giraudia.

Information contributed by: H. Kawai. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-20 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 neuter.

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.

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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. 20 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024