Chamaethamnion Falkenberg, 1897

Holotype species: Chamaethamnion schizandra Falkenberg

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmitz, F. & Falkenberg, P. (1897). Rhodomelaceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher hervorragender Fachgelehrten, Teil 1, Abteilung 2. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds), pp. 421-480. Leipzig: verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

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Description: Polysiphonous parasite forming a pulvinate outgrowth on host from which erect branchlets, up to 4-5 mm high, radiate. Branchlets monopodial, unbranched or with radial to distichous endogenous or adventitious branching, sometimes almost unilateral; 5-7 pericentral cells, often proximally corticated. Trichoblasts observed only on male plants. Reproductive structures on lateral branchlets. Procarps single on branchlet, 4-celled carpogonium and 2 sterile cells on supporting cell (Norris 1988); cystocarps large and ovoid. Spermatangial capitula replacing trichoblasts, ovoid or spheroid, without external sterile cells. Tetrasporangia on short polysiphonous stalks, two sporangia per segment forming 2 spiral rows (C. schizandra) in a radially organized stichidium, or 2 straight rows (C. pocockiae) in which the stichidium is dorsiventral, often flat and with curved tips.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-06 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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: On Polysiphonia and Kuetzingia in South Africa and Australia. Norris (1988) points out that there are few characters separating Chamaethamnion from Tylocolax.

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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. 06 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024