Chamaebotrys Huisman, 1996
Holotype species: Chamaebotrys boergesenii (Weber Bosse) Huisman
Original publication and holotype designation: Huisman, J.M. (1996). The red algal genus Coelarthrum Børgesen (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodymeniales) in Australian seas, including the description of Chamaebotrys gen. nov. Phycologia 35: 95-112.
Request PDFDescription: Thallus decumbent, generally attached to the substratum at many points, segmented, dichotomously, trichotomously or irregularly branched, often anastomosing secondarily with adjacent axes; segments spherical to ovoid, composed of an outer cellular layer and an inner cavity filled with a watery mucilage; construction multiaxial, cortex of 1-3 layers of small cells formed in rosettes around subcortical cells, medulla of larger, relatively colourless, pseudoparencymatous cells bearing secretory cells directly or on special stellate cells. Spermatangia, early stages of carpogonial branch and gonimoblast development unknown. Gonimoblast developing outwards, most cells being transformed to carposporangia in 2-3 lobes of different ages; cystocarps ostiolate, protruding outwards, tela arachnoidea absent but inner cells of pericarp often remaining stellate. Tetrasporangia generally formed in a terminal position from cortical cells, aggregated in nemathecial sori, spores regularly cruciately arranged.
Information contributed by: M.D. Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-10-01 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 masculine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2019). Fourth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 62(4): 355-367 [1-13].
Comments: Chamaebotrys boergesenii was formerly referred to Coelarthrum; this latter genus (q.v.) is different from Chamaebotrys in habit and in the formation of tetrasporangia in an intercalary position (Huisman 1996). C. boergesenii is widely distributed in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, although Huisman (1996) cautions against acceptance of these records without re-examination of the specimens in question. C. lomentariae (Tanaka and K. Nozawa) Huisman from Japan, but only from the type collection, is very similar to the type species and may be conspecific (Huisman 1996). C. prolifera from Puerto Rico is found in shallow water, and is the only species known from the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
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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. 01 October 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
