Nothocladus Skuja, 1934
Lectotype species: Nothocladus nodosus Skuja
Original publication: Skuja, H. (1935). Untersuchungen über die Rhodophyceen des Süßwassers. IV. Zwei neue Chantransia-Arten. V. Nothocladus, eine neue Gattung der Batrachospermaceen. VI. Nemalionopsis Shawi, eine neue Gattung und Art der Helminthocladiaceen. Beihefte zum Botanische Centralblatt 52B: 173-192, 4 figs.
Request PDFType designated in: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.
Description: thalli monoecious or dioecious; reddish-brown, olive-drab, sometimes grass-green; consistency mucilaginous or cartilaginous, branching irregular; whorls well developed, sometimes highly reduced; main axis covered by cylindrical cells and infrequently by bulbous cells; primary fascicles with ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or obovoidal, sometimes spherical cells; secondary fascicles few and sparse or abundant and covering the entire internode; spermatangia at the tips of primary and secondary fascicles, spherical to sub-spherical; carpogonial branches composed of barrel- or disc-shaped cells or cells of similar shape to the fascicles, few to many celled, straight or sometimes curled, spiralled and twisted, developing from the periaxial cell of primary fascicles; involucral filaments, short or long; carpogonia with sessile, rarely stalked, clavate, lanceolate, cylindrical, fusiform or ellipsoidal trichogynes; carposporophytes of three types: pedunculate, spherical, small; axial, spherical and hemispherical, large; creeping and diffuse; likewise, gonimoblast filaments densely or loosely arranged with determinate or indeterminate filaments; carposporangia spherical, obovoidal, ellipsoidal, or rarely elongate-obovoidal or clavate, small or large.
Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 236).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-19 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Vis, M.L. & Necchi, O., Jr. (2021). Subphylum Eurhodophytina, Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 129-332. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].
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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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