Xiphosiphonia Savoie & G.W.Saunders, 2016

Holotype species: Xiphosiphonia ardreana (Maggs & Hommersand) Savoie & G.W.Saunders

Original publication and holotype designation: Savoie, A.M. & Saunders, G.W. (2016). A molecular phylogenetic and DNA barcode assessment of the tribe Pterosiphonieae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) emphasizing the Northeast Pacific. Botany 94: 917-939, 8 figs.

Description: Thalli growing in dense tufts or forming extensive turfs, consisting of numerous erect axes arising from an entangled, branched, prostrate basal system; polysiphonous with 6–12 pericentral cells; ecorticate; prostrate axes terete, attached to the substrate ventrally by unicellular rhizoids which are cut off from pericentral cells, bearing laterals in a spiral arrangement, arising every third segment, laterals simple and determinate or developing into indeterminate axes, either prostrate or erect; erect axes terete proximally, becoming more or less compressed distally, complanate, with pinnate, alternate-distichous determinate laterals and occasional indeterminate branches, determinate laterals simple, producing an overall linear-lanceolate thallus shape, proximal segments of laterals congenitally fused with the bearing axis over 1.5–3.0 axial segments; trichoblasts when present are abundant and formed near the apices in an alternate-distichous arrangement. Tetrasporangia tetrahedral, 1 per segment, developing in spiral series in cylindrical branchlets on determinate laterals

Information contributed by: Savoie & G.W.Saunders (original description). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-10-10 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Huisman, J.M. (2018). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. pp. [i]-xii, 1-672, 189 figs. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.

Comments: Gametophytes are unknown from Europe.

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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. 10 October 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 April 2024