Cryptosiphonia J.Agardh, 1876
Lectotype species: Cryptosiphonia grayana (J.Agardh) J.Agardh
Publication details: J.Agardh, 1876: 251
Currently accepted name for the type species: Cryptosiphonia woodii (J.Agardh) J.Agardh
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: Terete, gelatino-cartilaginous, with a somewhat pyramidal aspect. Annual. Radially and abundantly branched to four orders; branches tapered at both ends. Uniaxial, with each axial cell bearing two pericentral cells at right angles to each other. Medulla of sparse filaments; cortical cells spherical. Rhizoids rare. Secondary pit connections lacking. Cuticle present. Pit plugs lacking cap layers. Dioecious. Carpogonium terminating a distally recurved, adventitious filament, sometimes with laterals proximally. Auxiliary cell on a separate, long, adventitious filament; proximal cells frequently with lateral branches. All cells of cystocarp becoming relatively large carposporangia. Spermatangial superficial, forming a continuous layer near distal ends of branches. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia large, irregularly cruciate or irregularly zonate. Fertile in spring and summer.
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.
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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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