Thamnocarpus Harvey, 1844, nom. illeg.

Holotype species: Thamnocarpus gunnianus Harvey

Currently accepted name for the type species: Carpothamnion gunnianum (Harvey) Kützing

Original publication and holotype designation: Hooker, W.J. (1844). Icones plantarum; or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks of new or rare plants slected from the aithor's herbarium. Vol. III. New series or Vol. VII of the entire work [Fasc. 7]. pp. [i]-vii, pls DCI-DCC [with text]. London & Paris: Hippolyte Ballière.

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Description: Thallus erect, to 30 cm, axes irregularly branched, densely corticated with inner filaments and small, irregular surface cells. Branchlets ecorticate, dichotomously or subdichotomously branched fromed singly from axial cells, usually lost or remaining as fine tufts at branch tips. Procarps as in Callithamnion with 4-celled carpogonial branch on one of a pair of pericentral cells each producing an auxiliary cell leading to carposporophyte with rounded groups of carposporangia. Spermatangial clusters on cells of branchlets. Tetrasporangia sessile on branchlet cells, tetrahedrally divided.

Information kindly contributed by E.M. Wollaston but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Carpothamnion.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.

Comments: Known only from southern Australia and east coast of Africa.

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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. 05 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024