Sphacelorbus Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai, 2010

Holotype species: Sphacelorbus nanus (Nageli ex Kützing) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai

Original publication and holotype designation: Draisma, S.G.A., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Kawai, H. (2010). A revised classification of the Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae) inferred from a psbC and rbcL based phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 45(3): 308-326.

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Description: Plants gregarious or caespitose, forming low felty mats or small felty patches with a monostromatic or polystromatic attachment disc or with creeping, branched or unbranched, stolons. Erect filaments with scattered, solitary, usually unbranched, hypacroblastic laterals which do not differ from the erect filaments. Laterals may transform into non-corticating rhizoids or into stolons. Unilocular and plurilocular zoidangia solitary or in small groups on few-celled stalks.

Information contributed by: M.D.Guiry; original description. 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.

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 23 April 2024