Tichocarpus Ruprecht, 1850

Holotype species: Tichocarpus crinitus (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht

Original publication and holotype designation: Ruprecht, F.J. (1850). Algae ochotenses. Die ersten sicheren Nachrichten über die Tange des Ochotskischen Meeres. pp. 1-243, 10 pls. St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Description: Cylindrical to compressed, irregularly subdichotomously branched with proliferous marginal branchlets. Thick and firm. Perennial. Medulla filamentous. Inner cortex of subspherical cells, becoming smaller and more elliptical toward cuticle. A single two- or three-celled carpogonial branch and auxiliary cell borne in a cluster of adventitious branches on an inner cortical cell, extending into the medulla. Auxiliary cell borne two cells distal to carpogonial branch. Gonimoblast developing inwardly. Fusion cell involving cells of fertile branch cluster. Cystocarps terminal on short, simple or branched, narrow processes closely set on both sides of branches. Carpostome apparently lacking. Spermatangia undescribed. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia reportedly zonate, scattered in cortex.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2016-03-30 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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: On rocks and on haptera of Laminaria in the intertidal zone of the exposed coast and in tidepools. Western North Pacific Ocean: Kamschatka Pen.; Kurile Is.; Hokkaido, Japan; Saghalien I.

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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. 30 March 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024