Wilsonosiphonia D.Bustamante, Won & T.O.Cho, 2017

Holotype species: Wilsonosiphonia fujiae D.Bustamante, Won & T.O.Cho

Original publication and holotype designation: Bustamante, D.E., Won, B.Y., Miller, K.A. & Cho, T.O. (2017). Wilsonosiphonia gen. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morpho-anatomical characters. Journal of Phycology 53(2): 368–380, 7 figs.

Description: Plants 0.7–3.2 cm, forming predominantly epilithic, intertidal turfs. Thalli composed of extensive and entangled creeping, interwoven, indeterminate prostrate, and erect axes. Ecorticate axes sparsely to moderately dichotomously to subdichotomously branched. Adventitious branches present. Lateral branches replacing trichoblasts. Trichoblasts, if present, long, numerous, delicate, several times forked, deciduous. Conspicuous scar cells present. Rhizoids cut off from distal ends of mature pericentral cells, with taproot-shaped multicellular tips at maturity. Pericentral cells eight to 14 produced from each axial cell. Procarps composed of a supporting cell bearing a four-celled carpogonial branch. Spermatangia replacing or developing as branches of trichoblasts. Tetrasporangia tetrahedral and arranged in spiral series. One or two tetrasporangia produced from a single segment.

Origin of description: this description is from the original publication; it may have been modified slightly. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-05-17 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Eberle, M.E. (1982). Annotated list of diatoms reported From Kansas. Fort Hayes Studies 64: [1]-145.

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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. 17 May 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024