Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Trentepohliales
Family Trentepohliaceae
Genus Cephaleuros

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Robberg Reserve, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; on surfaces of leaves on sheltered eastern side, with Phycopeltis spp.. 25 Sep 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Robberg Reserve, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; on surfaces of leaves on sheltered eastern side, with Phycopeltis spp. (darker orange). 25 Sep 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Robberg Reserve, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; on surfaces of leaves on sheltered eastern side, with Phycopeltis spp.. 25 Sep 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries Robberg Reserve, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa; on surfaces of leaves on sheltered eastern side, with Phycopeltis spp.

Publication details
Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries 1832: 327

Original publication: Fries, E.[M.] (1832). Systema mycologicum: sistens fungorum ordines, genera et species, huc usque cognitas, quas ad normam methodi naturalis determinavit / disposuit atque descripsit. Volumen III et ultimum. pp. [261]-524, [1]-202 p. ["Index alphabeticus generum, ..."]. Grypiswaldae: Sumptibus Entestii Mauritii.
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Type species
This is the type species (non designatus) of the genus Cephaleuros.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Origin of species name
Participle (Latin), becoming green (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cephaleuros densus Kunze ex E.M.Fries 1832
Mycoidea parasitica Cunningham 1879
Phyllactidium tropicum Möbius 1888
Cephaleuros albidus Karsten 1891
Cephaleuros laevis Karsten 1891
Cephaleuros mycoidea Karsten 1891
Cephaleuros candelabrum Schmidle 1897
Cephaleuros pulvinatus Schmidle 1897
Chrooderma endophytica F.E.Fritsch 1942
Phycopeltis hawaiiensis J.W.King 1954
Cephaleuros virescens f. sessilis Islam 1972

General environment
This is a Terrestrial species.

Type information
Type locality: Surinam (on leaves). Collector: C. Weigelt (in 1827-1828)

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cephaleuros virescens Kunze ex E.M.Fries)
Europe: Belgium (Sarma 1986).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Sarma 1986).

North America: Louisiana (Nelsen et al. 2011), Mexico (Sarma 1986), USA (Sarma 1986).

Central America: Costa Rica (Sarma 1986), Guatemala (Sarma 1986).

Caribbean Islands: Jamaica (Sarma 1986), Puerto Rico (Sarma 1986), Trinidad & Tobago (Sarma 1986).

South America: Argentina (Sarma 1986), Brazil (Sarma 1986), Colombia (Sarma 1986), Ecuador (Sarma 1986), French Guiana (Rindi & López-Bautista, 2008), Peru (Sarma 1986).

Africa: Cameroon (Sarma 1986), Ghana (Sarma 1986), Kenya (Sarma 1986), Mauritius (Sarma 1986), South Africa (Nelsen et al. 2011), Sudan (Sarma 1986), Tanzania (Sarma 1986), Zaire (Sarma 1986).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Sarma 1986), India (Sarma 1986), Sri Lanka (Sarma 1986).

Asia: China (Sarma 1986, Hu & Wei 2006), Japan (Suto & Ohtani 2009), Taiwan (Nelsen et al. 2011).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Sarma 1986), Malawi (Sarma 1986), Malaysia (Sarma 1986).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012), Queensland (Sarma 1986, Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: New Caledonia (Sarma 1986).

(as Mycoidea parasitica Cunningham)
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Day et al. 1995).

Nomenclatural notes
According to INA, the name was supposedly published by Kunze (with a Latin description?) on the label of a specimen in an informal set of specimens distributed to various herbaria, probably in 1829, dubiously valid even if there were a description. - (10 Mar 2010) - M.D. Guiry

Suto & Ohtani (2009: 228) cite the authority as Kunze 1827, in Fries 1829. - (27 Apr 2010) - Wendy Guiry

Key references
Rindi, F. & López-Bautista, J.M. (2008). Diversity and ecology of Trentepohliales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) in French Guiana. Cryptogamie, Algologie 29(1): 13-43.

Suto, Y. & Ohtani, S. (2009). Morphology and taxonomy of five Cephaleuros species (Trentepohliaceae, Chlorophyta) from Japan, including three new species. Phycologia 48(4): 213-236, 66 figs, 2 tables.

Thompson, R.H. & Wujek, D.E. (1997). Trentepohliales: Cephaleuros, Phycopeltis and Stomatochroon. Morphology, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [i-vii] viii-x, [1]-149, 60 pls. Enfield, New Hampshire: Science Publishers, Inc.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture 2416 Cephaleuros virescens
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Cephaleuros&species=virescens

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Cephaleuros&Species=virescens

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 19 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3356 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Chapman, R.L. & Henk, M.C. (1985). Observations on the habit, morphology and ultrastructure of Cephaleuros parasiticus (Chlorophyta) and a comparison with C. virescens. Journal of Phycology 21: 513-522, 21 figs.
Chapman, R.L. (1976). Ultrastructure of Cephaleuros virescens (Chroolepidaceae; Chlorophyta). I. Scanning electron microscopy of zoosporangia. American Journal of Botany 63: 1060-1070.
Chapman, R.L. (1980). Ultrastructure of Cephaleuros virescens (Chroolepidaceae; Chlorophyta). II. Gametes. American Journal of Botany 67: 10-17.
Chapman, R.L. (1981). Ultrastructure of Cephaleuros virescens (Chroolepidaceae; Chlorophyta). III. Zoospores. American Journal of Botany 68: 544-556.
Wolf, F.A. (1930). A parasitic alga, Cephaleuros virescens Kunze, on citrus and certain other plants. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 44: 187-205.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:56618