Myriocladia J.Agardh, 1841
Holotype species: Myriocladia lovenii J.Agardh
Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1841). In historiam algarum symbolae. Linnaea 15: 1-50, 443-457.
Request PDFPrecise date of publication: April 1841
Description: Thallus erect, epiphytic or epilithic, to 25 cm high, cylindrical axis irregularly and richly branched. Medulla single-stranded, the central filament, which is terminated by an assimilatory filament, is surrounded by downwardgrowing hyphae that in older thallus parts together form a firm syntagmatic medulla. Meristematic region of leading filament among youngest laterals. Sharp border between medulla and cortical layer, which is composed of cylindrical, straight assimilatory filaments, phaeophycean hairs, and ovoid to pyriform unilocular sporangia. Plurilocular sporangia unknown. Life history not studied. Distributed on temperate coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. 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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