Coilodesme Strømfelt, 1886

Holotype species: Coilodesme bulligera Strömfelt

Original publication and holotype designation: Strömfelt, H.F.G. (1886). Einige für die Wissenschaft neue Meeresalgen aus Island. Bot. Centralbl. 26: 172-173. [in Latin]

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Description: Plants mostly epiphytic, attached by a small disk or with rhizoids penetrating the host tissue. Thalli membranous, saccate, cylindrical to flattened, entire or with frayed divisions, with short stipe, polystichous, composed of inner layer consisting of large, thick-walled, almost colorless cells and cortical layer consisting of smaller pigmented cells which contain several disc-shaped chloroplasts with pyrenoids. Unilocular sporangia formed within the cortical layer, scattered over the entire surface of the thallus except for the lowermost part. Plurilocular sporangia not detected on erect thallus (excluding C. californica). Unispores pear-shaped typically flagellated, containing a chloroplast with stigma. Wynne (1972) cultured unispores of C. californica and obtained microthalli forming plurilocular sporangia. The plurispores developed into plethysmothalli forming unilocular sporangia, however, macroscopic plant did not develop. On the other hand, unispores of C. bulligera and C. fucicola directly formed macrothalli.

Information contributed by: H. Kawai. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-20 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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.

Comments: Distributed in cold and cool temperate water area of Pacific Ocean.

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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 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024