Ditria Hollenberg, 1967
Holotype species: Ditria reptans Hollenberg
Original publication and holotype designation: Hollenberg, G.J. (1967). New genera in the Rhodomelaceae from the Central Pacific. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 66: 201-221, 15 figs.
Request PDFDescription: Prostrate branches 80-115 µ in diameter, composed of segments one diameter long or shorter, with moderately thick walls; lateral branches arising exogenously or cicatrigenously, commonly at intervals of 2 and 3 segments in alternating sequence. Chromatophores numerous 1.5-2.0 µ in diameter and arranged in forking chains or transverse bands; trichoblasts to 1.25 mm. long and 40-48 µ in diameter at the base, with 7-8 dichotomies.
Thallus small, mostly prostrate but with some erect determinate laterals, terete, all axes with 5 pericentral cells, ecorticate. Attachment by branched multicellullar rhizoids arising from ventral pericentral cells of the prostrate axes. Indeterminate axes bearing a branch primordium or lateral branch on every segment, these arising in a spiral sequence with lateral branches separated by alternating intervals of 1 and 2 dormant branch primordia (i.e. 2 and 3 segments). In one species (D. expleta) the laterals arising in alternate pairs, the pairs separated by intervals of 1 branch primordium (i.e. alternating intervals of 1 and 2 segments). Determinate branches arising mostly in a lateral position, appearing alternate and distichous. Apices of branches with branched trichoblasts. Spermatangia in heads, replacing trichoblasts. Procarps borne on trichoblasts, with a 4-celled carpogonial branch and 2 sterile groups. Carposporphyte with a fusion cell and terminal clavate carposporangia. Cystocarps ovate, terminal on determinate lateral branches. Tetrasporangia borne in a spiral sequence in determinate lateral branches, 1 per segment, tetrahedrally divided.
Information contributed by: Original description and Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-12-20 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.
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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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