Leptocladia J.Agardh, 1892

Holotype species: Leptocladia binghamiae J.Agardh

Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1892). Analecta algologica. Lunds Universitets ÅrsSkrift, Andra Afdelningen, Kongl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Handlingar 28(6): 1-182, 3 pls.

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Description: Uniaxial, firm, subcylindrical to distinctly flattened and ligulate. Subdichotomously branched to eight orders. Obscurely to distinctly costate. Rhizoids surrounding axial and four distally situated periaxial cells. Cortex of subspherical to elliptical cells, decreasing in diameter toward surface of thallus. Cuticle present. Dioecious. Carpogonium terminating a long, proximally branched, distally recurved, adventitious filament with distally enlarged cells. Auxiliary cell intercalary, distal, among enlarged cells, on a separate, adventitious, percurrent filament. Gonimoblast developing from remnant of connecting filament, which can initiate additional connecting filaments, attached to auxiliary cell. Only distal cells of gonimoblast maturing into carposporangia; proximal cells incorporated into a gonimoblast fusion cell. Carposporangia small, released through a carpostome. Spermatangia superficial, cut off by oblique walls. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia small, irregularly cruciate to irregularly zonate, attached basally.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. 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.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

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: Strictly subtidal. Restricted to the warm temperate waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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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 19 April 2024