Carpoblepharis Kützing, 1843, nom. cons.

Type species: a type species (generitype) appears not to have been designated.

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Description: Thallus erect to 25 cm, bilaterally compressed, distichous, pinnately-branched to 4 orders of branching. Determinate branchlets fringe-like from branch margins. Axes densely corticated with filaments arising from pericentral cells. Procarps, 2-3 on branchlets along thallus margins. Carpogonial branches, 4-celled on basal (supporting) cells of short branchlets developed from first of up to 8 pericentral cells on axial cell of fertile branch. Auxiliary cell cut off from supporting cell, giving rise to carposporophyte with globose groups of carposporangia. Fusion cell formed from foot-cell, supporting cell and axial cell. Spermatangia from surface cortical cells. Tetrasporangia on pericentral cells in stichidia along thallus margins, tetrahedrally divided.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-08-31 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.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.

Comments: Closely related to Ceramium, but more robust with thicker axial cortication. Recorded from South Africa, Sri Lanka and Taiwan, epiphytic on Ecklonia and Macrocystis.

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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. 31 August 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024