Pterocladiophila K.-C.Fan & Papenfuss, 1959
Holotype species: Pterocladiophila hemisphaerica K.-C.Fan & Papenfuss
Original publication and holotype designation: Fan, K.-C. & Papenfuss, G.F. (1959). Red algal parasites occurring on members of the Gelidiales. Madroño 15(1): 33-38, 10 figs.
Request PDFDescription: Plants are erumpant pustules on Pterocladia and consist of endophytic filaments which may or may not be secondarily pit-connected to host medullary cells, and files of compact externally oriented cells. Pigmentation is lacking. Carposporophyte initiation is not well documented. A small fusion cell occurs at the base of the gonimoblast, the gonimoblasts forming in clustered chains in chambers densely surrounded by gametophytic tissue. Spermatangial mother cells are also clustered into conceptacle-like chambers. Tetrasporangia are zonately divided and borne terminally on sympodial systems that are aggregated into conceptacle-like chambers.
Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2011-08-30 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: Distribution: The sole species was originally described from New Zealand, and is also recorded from the Caribbean (Stegenga and Vroman 1986).
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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 August 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024
