Kuetzingiella Kornmann, 1956

Holotype species: Kuetzingiella battersii (Bornet ex Sauvageau) Kornmann

Original publication and holotype designation: Kornmann, P. (1956). Ectocarpaceen-Studien IV Herponema, Kützingiella nov. gen., Farloweilla nov. gen. Helgolander Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 5: 292-325.

Description: This genus forms woolly coverings on for example Taonia atomaria. The basal part is a syntagmatic, monostromatic disc. The cells are isodiametric and irregular in outline without any radial organization of the cells. One of the characteristic features of this genus is that sessile or shortly-stalked plurilocular sporangia develop prior to the formation of erect filaments. The erect filaments are sparsely branched or unbranched and the cells contain several disc-shaped chloroplasts. Plurilocular sporangia are sessile and develop laterally on the erect filaments sometimes together with sessile or stalked (1 cell) unilocular sporangia. The life history is unknown.

Information contributed by: P. M. Pedersen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-03-25 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

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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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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 March 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024