Ostiophyllum Kraft, 2003
Holotype species: Ostiophyllum sonderopeltae Kraft
Original publication and holotype designation: Kraft, G.T. (2003). The morphology of Ostiophyllum sonderopeltae gen. et sp. nov. (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) from south-eastern Australia. Phycologia 42: 18-25.
Request PDFDescription: Plants multiaxial, foliose; blades composed of laxly filamentous medulla, with an inner cortex of secondarily pit-connected cells and an outer cortex of anticlinal filaments of cells lacking secondary pit-connections. Tetrasporangia cruciately or decussate-cruciately divided, catenate, in deeply immersed sori formed from localized patches of apically dividing cortical filaments that surround the bases of deep cavities and are directed inwardly towards the medulla; sori scattered across the broad faces of the fronds and communicating with the blade surface via long ostioles. Procarps consisting of a three-celled carpogonial branch and a sterile cortical filament borne distally on an intercalary supporting cell. Primary gonimoblasts elongate, borne laterally and proximally on the auxiliary cell and directed inwardly in the thallus among lax filaments of the medulla; cystocarps submarginal, ostiolate, deeply immersed in the medulla: carposporophytes composed of dense carposporangial aggregates separated by narrow sterile gonimoblast cells and surrounde by a narrow border of elongate gametophytic cells secondarily pit-connected to the gonimoblasts. Spermatangial thalli unknown.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2016-03-16 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.
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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. 16 March 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
