Corynecladia J.Agardh, 1876

Holotype species: Corynecladia clavata (Sonder) 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.

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Type designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.

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Description: Apical cell sunk in an apical pit of branchlet; central axis recognisable only near apical cell; forming extensive cortex; four pericentral cells on vegetative axial segments; the first pericentral cell underneath the trichoblasts; secondary cortication and secondary pit connections between cortical cells present; medullary and subcortical cells with numerous refractive discoid starch grains; spermatangial development of trichoblast type; spermatangial branches produced from one of two laterals on suprabasal cell of trichoblasts; procarp-bearing segments with five pericentral cells; tetrasporangial in parallel arrangement; tetrasporangial production from particular pericentral cells. Gen. emend. Cassano et al. (2019: 125; Metti et al., 2024: 21).

Information contributed by: Cassano et al. 2019. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-02-26 by G.M. 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: Cassano, V., G.N. Santos, E.M.S. Pestana, J.M.C. Nunes, M.C. Oliveira & Fujii, M.T. (2019). Laurencia longiramea sp. nov. for Brazil and an emendation of the generic delineation of Corynecladia (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 58(2): 115-127, 28 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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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024