Paludicola Necchi & M.L.Vis, 2020

Holotype species: Paludicola turfosa (Bory) M.L.Vis & Necchi

Original publication and holotype designation: Vis, M.L., Lee, J., Eloranta, P., Chapuis, I.S., Lam, D.W. & Necchi, O. (2020). Paludicola gen.nov. and revision of the species formerly in Batrachospermum section Turfosa (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 56(4): 844-861, 6 figures, 1 table.

Description: Plants monoecious, dioecious, or polyoecious (a population with both monoecious and dioecious plants); branching pseudodichotomous, (at least two species are exceptions and irregular); whorls well developed or reduced; cortication of the main thallus axis composed of two or three layers of filaments with cylindrical cells detached from the main axis or loosely arranged; primary fascicles composed of cylindrical to ellipsoidal, obovoid, or spherical cells with (2–)3–15(– 17) cell storeys; secondary fascicles abundant and covering half to all of the internode; spermatangia spherical or obovoid, on primary or secondary fascicles in some species predominantly on secondary fascicles; carpogonial branches well differentiated from the fascicles, straight, developing from the periaxial or proximal cells of primary fascicles, rarely on cortical filaments, short, composed of 1–11 barrel- or disc-shaped cells, 12–60(–75) µm in length; involucral filaments composed of 1–5 barrelshaped or spherical cells; carpogonia 23–69 µm in length, with sessile, club-shaped trichogynes; carposporophytes axial, hemispherical to obovoidal, higher or lower than the whorls, 1–2 per whorl, large, 90–550 µm diameter, 60–330 µm in height; gonimoblast filaments of two types: radially branched, densely or loosely arranged, determinate with 2–14 ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or barrel-shaped cells and diffuse, indeterminate with cylindrical cells, prostrate, creeping around fascicles and on cortical filaments; carposporangia obovoid, subspherical, 8–25 µm in length, 7–16.5 µm diameter.

Information contributed by: Original description and Vis & Necchi (2021: 256). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-20 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 feminine.

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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 April 2024