Batrachospermum Roth, 1797

Holotype species: Conferva gelatinosa Linnaeus

Currently accepted name for the type species: Batrachospermum gelatinosum (Linnaeus) De Candolle

Original publication and holotype designation: Roth, A.W. (1797). Bemerkungen über das Studium der cryptogamischen Wassergewächse. pp. [1]-109, [+1 Druckfehler]. Hannover: bei den Gebrüdern Hahn.

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Description: Thalli monoecious or dioecious; olive-drab, sometimes brownish; consistency mucilaginous, branching irregular; whorls well developed; cortical filaments of the main axis with cylindrical cells; primary fascicles with ellipsoidal or fusiform cells; secondary fascicles few and sparse; spermatangia typically at the tips of primary, less often of secondary fascicles, but can be at the tips of involucral filaments of the carpogonial branches, spherical to sub-spherical; carpogonial branches 40.5–65.9 ?m in length, composed of cells similar to the fascicles, straight, developing from the periaxial, proximal cells of primary fascicles, and occasionally from distal cells of primary fascicles; involucral filaments, short or long, composed of cylindrical or ellipsoidal cells; carpogonia with sessile, rarely stalked, clavate, lanceolate, or ellipsoidal trichogynes; carposporophytes pedunculate, spherical, inserted within the whorls or exerted, small; gonimoblast filaments densely arranged, composed of 2–4 barrel-shaped to cylindrical cells; carposporangia spherical to obovoidal.

Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 157-158). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-21 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 neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Sheath, R.G. (2003). Red Algae. In: Freshwater Algae of North America, Ecology & Classification. (Wehr, J.D. & Sheath, R.G. Eds), pp. 197-224. San Diego: Academic Press.

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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. 21 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024