Botryocladia exquisita C.W.Schneider & C.E.Lane 2008
Publication Details
Botryocladia exquisita C.W.Schneider & C.E.Lane 2008: 621, figs 14-23
Published in: Schneider, C.W. & Lane, C.E. (2008). Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 9. The genus Botryocladia (Rhodophyta, Rhodymeniaceae), including B. bermudana, B. exquisita and B. flookii spp. nov. Phycologia 47: 614-619.
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The type species (holotype) of the genus Botryocladia is Gastroclonium uvarium (J.A.Murray) Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Bermuda Aquarium reef tank #3, Harrington Sound, Flatts, Bermuda (3°20.79'N, 64°42.89'W); (Schneider & Lane 2008: 621) Holotype: C.W. Schneider & C.E. Lane 08-16-2; cystocarpic; 13.ii.2008; US; (Schneider & Lane 2008: 621) Notes: Isotypes MICH, NY, Herb. CWS. GenBank accession no. EU 977497
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), delicate, fine, exquisite (Schneider & Lane 2008).
Description
Plants intensely pink, to 30 mm tall, attached
by small discoid holdfasts, giving rise to stipes bearing one to
many vesicles; vesicles obovoid, somewhat elongating
at maturity to 6 mm diam. and 12 mm long; stipes
delicate, terete, solid and branched, to 0.5 mm diam.; vesicle
walls 33–36 µm thick and consisting of two layers,
medulla composed of large cells to 24 µm thick and 39 µm long
in section, circular and elliptical to irregular in surface view, elongating at maturity; specialized and nonspecialized
secretory cell bearing cells produced from the inner medulla
bearing two to three pyriform secretory cells, 22–26 µm diam.; cortex incomplete, composed of a network of small
angular cells forming above the junctions of medullary cells; tetrasporangia unknown; most likely dioecious,
spermatangia unknown; cystocarps scattered over vesicles,
ostiolate, protruding to the exterior and interior of the vesicle, to 0.5 mm diam.; carposporangia subglobose to
irregularly angular, 10–20 µm diam. in greatest dimension.
Key Characteristics
Differing from other Botryocladia species with
small, non-elongate, spherical to pyriform vesicles and incomplete
cortices by its number of cell layers in the vesicle walls and its
production of specialized and unspecialized secretory cell bearing
cells.
Created: 24 December 2008 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 December 2008
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 December 2008. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 May 2025
