Hoefkenia Eb.Fischer, Killmann, Leh, K.Müller & D.Quandt, 2024
Publication details: Eb.Fischer, Killmann, Leh, K.Müller & D.Quandt, 2024: 7
Original publication and holotype designation: Fischer, E., Killmann, D., Gerlach, J., Schütte, C., Leh, B.; Müller, K. & Quandt, D. (2024). Hoefkenia hunsrueckensis, a new genus and species from Europe, and the identity of Virescentia vogesiaca (F.W.Schultz ex Skuja) Necchi, D.C.Agostinho & M.L.Vis (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta. Diversity 16(473): 1–16.
Request PDFDescription: "The genus shares with Paludicola, Virescentia and Kumanoa the axial-central carposporophyte forming a hemispherical or spherical structure and usually only 1 (?2) per whorl, and a usually well-developed whorl. It differs from Kumanoa, with which it clusters in the phylogenetic tree, in the straight carpogonial branches (curved or twisted in Kumanoa). It differs from Paludicola in the carposporophyte with gonimoblast filaments that show only one type (two types of gonimoblast filaments in Paludicola, i.e., radially branched determinate filaments with carpogonia at the tips, and prostrate indeterminate filaments). It differs from Virescentia in the unique rbcL- and COI-sequences clustering with Kumanoa and the unstalked or only very shortly stalked club-shaped trichogyne"
Information contributed by: Original diagnosis. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-08-08 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.
Nomenclatural note
"The genus is named after Ulrike Höfken, former Minister of Environment, Energy, Nutrition and Forests of the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate for her initiative to gazette Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park as the first National Park of Rhineland- Palatinate in 2015, and for her continuous and enthusiastic support of this Park."
- (08 August 2024) - M.D. Guiry
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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. 08 August 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 June 2025
