Padinopsis Ercegovic, 1955

Holotype species: Padinopsis adriatica Ercegovic

Original publication and holotype designation: Ercegovic, A. (1955). Contribution a la connaissance des Éctocarpes (Ectocarpus) del'Adriatique moyenne. Acta Adriatica 7: 1-74.

Description: Delicate, olive-brown fan-shaped blades up to 3 cm tall, 3.5 cm broad, growing by a margin of apical cells, increasing in breadth by longitudinal division of apical cells, attached by down-growing rhizoids. Older plants becoming lobed by retardation or cessation of division in apical cells in scattered regions of the margin. Blade margin monostromatic, soon becoming distromatic by a longitudinal division of subapical cells. Cells of blades containing discoid chloroplasts and appearing quadrangular in transverse section (rather than the circular outline of cells found in Syringoderma). Cells of blades not dorsiventrally differentiated, but dorsal surface of blade bearing 2-4 concentric (parallel to the apical margin), interrupted zones of fine hairs with basal meristems of short cells above a series of one to several round, darkly pigmented cells forming the attachment to the blade. Reproduction unknown. Marine, known only from a single collection at the island of Jabuka in the central Adriatic, growing on crustose coralline algae at 50-70 m.

Information kindly contributed by E. C. Henry but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

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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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