Haematocelis J.Agardh, 1851
Lectotype species: Haematocelis rubens J.Agardh
Currently accepted name for the type species: Schizymenia dubyi (Chauvin ex Duby) J.Agardh
Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 1. pp. 337 [bis]-351 [bis] 352-506. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
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: Cartilaginous crust. Basal layer producing firmly united filaments, at first almost prostrate, becoming erect, forming a stratified middle layer. Cells rectangular, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Rhizoids absent. Female and male reproductive structures unknown. Tetrasporangia zonate, attached basally, terminal on erect filaments, which are thicker than vegetative filaments, borne near surface of thallus in sori, which can become rather mucilaginous. Cartilaginous crust. Basal layer producing firmly united filaments, at first almost prostrate, becoming erect, forming a stratified middle layer. Cells rectangular, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Rhizoids absent. Female and male reproductive structures unknown. Tetrasporangia zonate, attached basally, terminal on erect filaments, which are thicker than vegetative filaments, borne near surface of thallus in sori, which can become rather mucilaginous.
Information kindly contributed by S.C. Lindstrom but may now be outdated.
Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Schizymenia.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Ardré, F. (1977). Sur le cycle du Schizymenia dubyi (Chauvin ex Duby) J. Agardh (Némastomacée, Gigartinale). Revue Algologique, Nouvelle Serie 12: 73-86.
Comments: Ardré (1977, 1980) has shown the type species (from France) to be the tetrasporophyte of Schizymenia dubyi (Chauv. ex Duby) J. Agardh; DeCew (1983, unpublished) has observed the type species from California to be the tetrasporophyte of Schizymenia pacifica (Kylin) Kylin. Maggs & Guiry (1982) reported tetraspores from Haematocelis fissurata Crouan et Crouan, known from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France, to develop into thalli of Sphaerococcous coronopifolius Stackhouse. No culture work has been done on Haematocelis zonalis Dawson et Neushul from California.
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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. 22 October 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
