Farlowia J.Agardh, 1876
Lectotype species: Farlowia crassa J.Agardh
Currently accepted name for the type species: Farlowia mollis (Harvey & Bailey) Farlow & Setchell
Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.
Description: Uniaxial, terete or distinctly flattened, unbranched or distichously, subdichotomously or proliferously branched to about four orders. Midrib and lateral veins sometimes evident. Margins of ultimate order of branches sometimes fimbriate. Rhizoids surrounding axial cell and four medially situated periaxial cells. Cortical cells subspherical to elliptical, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Secondary pit connections lacking. Pit plugs lacking cap layers.
Monoecious or dioecious. Carpogonium terminating a long, usually unbranched, distally recurved, adventitious filament with slightly enlarged distal cells. Connecting filaments issuing from fusion process, contacting a succession of differentiated auxiliary cells occurring near distal ends of separate, unbranched, percurrent, adventitious filaments. No gonimoblast fusion cell. Most cells of cystocarp maturing into relatively small carposporangia. Carpostome lacking. Spermatangia superficial, cut off by oblique walls. Tetrasporophyte heteromorphic, crustose, Haematocelis- or Cruoriopsis-like. Tetrasporangia small, irregularly cruciate to irregularly zonate, attached basally.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-10-07 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: Lindstrom, S.C. & Scagel, R.F. (1987). The marine algae of British Columbia, northwern Washington, and southeast Alaska: division Rhodophyta (red algae), class Rhodophyceae, order Gigartinales, family Dumontiaceae, with an introduction to the order Gigartinales. Canadian Journal of Botany 65: 2202-2232, 99 figs.
Comments: Farlowia spp. have been shown to have antiviral activity (Ehresmann et al., 1977; Hatch et al., 1979).
Restricted to the North Pacific: northern Japan; Kurile Islands; Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Baja California, Mexico.
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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. 07 October 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
