Medeiothamnion Pujals, 1970

Holotype species: Medeiothamnion sanctacrucense Pujals

Original publication and holotype designation: Pujals, C. (1970). Medeiothamnion nuevo género de Ceramiaceae. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales (Botanica) 3(10): 287-299.

Description: Thallus with prostrate and erect axes to 3O cm, branching irregular to alternately subdistichous, usually with rhizoidal cortication. Axial cells with whorls of 2-5 pinnately to subdichotomously branched determinate branchlets. Procarps subapical on short lateral branchlets, carpogonial branches 4-celled on one (supporting cell) of 3 pericentral cells. Following fusion of enlarged cells of carpogonial branch the auxiliary cell, cut off from supporting cell, leads to development of carposporophyte with successive development of carposporangial groups and surrounding involucral filaments. Spermatangial heads on cells of determinate branchlets. Tetrasporangla on inner cells of branchlets, tetrahedrally divided. Distinguished from other genera of Sphondylothamnieae by form of hypogenous cell, single auxiliary cell per procarp and multinucleate gonimolobe cells.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-06 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.

Comments: Includes several species removed from Wrangelia. Most records from southern Australia, also from Santa Cruz, Argentine (type species), New Zealand and southern islands.

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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. 06 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024