Oerstedtia Trevisan, 1848

Holotype species: Oerstedtia australis (Endlicher & Diesing) Trevisan

Currently accepted name for the type species: Oerstedtia scalaris (Suhr) Jensen

Original publication and holotype designation: Trevisan, V.B.A. (1848). Saggio di una monografia delle Alghe Coccotalle. pp. 1-112. Padova [Padua]: coi tipi del seminario.

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Description: Plants to 70 cm in length, with a somewhat woody conical holdfast producing a short (to 12 cm) subterete perennial main axis bearing much longer primary laterals (to 5 mm wide) in a bilateral distichous arrangement, which are strongly compressed but not foliaceous. Laterals are without a midrib, entire, linear-elongate, subterete at their base. Vesicles absent. Apical cells 3-sided, positioned at the base of a narrow, slit-like apical pit. Most of the secondary laterals become determinate fertile axes, to 3 cm in length, subtended by a leaf. Receptacular clusters produced laterally and distichously on fertile axes, made up of a number of terete branched axes (1-2 mm long) bearing swollen receptacles terminally (to 1 mm diameter x 1.5 mm long). Plants monoecious, bearing unisexual conceptacles. On a single receptacle the terminal few conceptacles are male, with numerous branched antheridial filaments, and the others female; one egg per oogonium. Single species O. scalaris endemic to Agulhas marine province on the south coast of South Africa, subtidal.

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.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

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. 21 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024