Sarcopeltis Hommersand, 2020
Holotype species: Sarcopeltis skottsbergii (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Hommersand, Hughey, Leister & P.W.Gabrielson
Original publication and holotype designation: Hughey, J.R., Leister, G.L., Gabrielson, P.W. & Hommersand, M.H. (2020). Sarcopeltis gen. nov. (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta), with S. skottsbergii comb. nov. from southern South America and S. antarctica sp. nov. from the Antarctic Peninsula. Phytotaxa 468(1): 75-88, 4 figs.
Precise date of publication: October 23, 2020
Description: Plant a large, to 50 cm, more or less circular, umbilicate, decumbent to mostly erect blade, with a short, central, discoid holdfast and frequently with numerous, secondary, peg-like haptera; margin undulate, entire or deeply incised to center of blade. Blade cartilaginous and thick, to 640 µm, with filamentous, mesh-like medulla comprising 75% of blade thickness, grading to cellular cortex of subspherical cells. Female gametophytes producing papillae; carpogonial branches and earliest post-fertilization stages not seen; diploidized auxiliary cell forming lateral and inward protusions; gonimoblast cells growing outward and forming terminal, tubular cells that fuse with surrounding vegetative gametophyte cells that have not formed an envelope around the expanding gonimoblast cells; cystocarps borne on papillae on female gametophytes. Tetrasporophytes form tetrasporangia entirely from secondary medullary filaments.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-06 by M.D. Guiry.Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Comments: Sarcopeltis skottsbergii is extensively harvested throughout its range in southern Chile (Westermeier et al. 2012, and references within).
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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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