Murrayella F.Schmitz, 1893

Holotype species: Murrayella periclados (C.Agardh) F.Schmitz

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmitz, F. (1893). Die Gattung Lophothalia J. Ag. Berichte der deutsche botanischen Gesellschaft 11: 212-232.

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Description: Thalli prostrate, attached by rhizoids, and erect polysiphonous branches, up to 1 cm tall; 4 pericentral cells, uncorticated. Pigmented monosiphonous branchlets, branched or unbranched, with or without polysiphonous proximal segments, attached in alternate radial series on upright axes. Sporling (Aponte & Ballantine 1987) attached by rhizoids, opposite pole forms a branching uniseriate filament from which polysiphonous branches emerge which in turn form both prostrate and erect polysiphonous branches. Procarps on distal end of short polysiphonous laterals; sterile cells apparently not present in procarp but 2 carpogonial branches sometimes present on same supporting cell (Aponte & Ballantine 1987); cystocarps ovoid. Male capitula cylindrical, several may be on same trichoblast, terminating different branches; short filament of sterile cells terminates fertile branchlet. Tetrasporangial stichidia conical, terminating short polysiphonous branchlets; 4 sporangia per segment; proximal segments of stichidium may each bear a trichoblast.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-07 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: In tropics and subtropics, occurring in high littoral or mangrove habitats.

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