Gelidiocolax N.L.Gardner, 1927

Holotype species: Gelidiocolax microsphaericus N.L.Gardner

Original publication and holotype designation: Gardner, N.L. (1927). New Rhodophyceae from the Pacific coast of North America. III. University of California Publications in Botany 13: 333-368, pls 59-71.

Description: Erumpent fronds are diminutive (to 5 mm diam.), pale pink or colorless, and form aggregates of spherical tubercules on hosts of the genera Gelidium and Pterocladia. Plants consist of a basal mass of penetrating rhizoids variously reported as forming or lacking secondary pit connections to host tissue and which give rise outwardly to a solid mass of isodiametric cells. Early gonimoblast stages are not known, but carposporophytes apparently consist of a small basal fusion cell and radiating chains of carposporangia that form in conceptacle-like chambers communicating to the surface by an ostiole. Carposporophytes are aggregated in fertile lobes and are surrounded by a thick pericarp. Spermatangia differentiate over entire surfaces of lobes, the mother cells giving rise to rows of 3-4. Tetrasporangia are cruciately divided and are also scattered across the thallus surface.

Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-11-06 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 masculine.

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: Distribution: The type species is recorded from California, Mexico and West Africa (Senegal), and a second, G. mammillata Fan and Papenfuss, is similarly widespread in Hawaii, southern California, and Japan. Others are limited in distribution and occur in Venezuela, Mediterranean France, and and South Africa.

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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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