Ranavalona Kraft, 1977
Holotype species: Ranavalona duckerae Kraft
Original publication and holotype designation: Kraft, G.T. (1977). Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). I. The Acrotylaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 25: 97-140, 18 figs.
Request PDFDescription: Plants reach 6 cm in length, are epiphytic, erect from a discoid holdfast, and consist of flattened, linear axes above below that extend a short way distally as midribs. Planes of the marginal laterals are oriented at right angles to those of the bearing axes. The medulla occupies up to 1/3 the diameter of the axes and is fairly densely filamentous, being abruptly bordered by a 4-5 layered inner cortex of large, subisodiametric cells in turn bordered by a 2-3-layered anticlinal outer cortex. Support occur in subapical nemathecia and are polycarpogonial, bearing sterile cells as well as 3-celled carpogonial branches. Gonimoblasts enter the surrounding nutritive tissue, eventually initiating centripetal gonimoblast filaments bearing single terminal carposporangia. Cystocarps are deeply embedded primarily in the marginal laterals, and communicate by a long ostiole that is initiated by the stretching apart and breakdown of localized cortical filaments, but which later comes to be lined with adventitious cells to form a distinct pore. Tetrasporangia develop in nemathecia and are laterally attached to bearing cells (Kraft, 1977).
Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. 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: Distribution: Growing on Gelidium amansii in the mid- to lower-eulittoral; endemic to southern Madagascar (Plage Monseigneur, Fort Dauphin).
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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
