Alsidium C.Agardh, 1827

Holotype species: Alsidium corallinum C.Agardh

Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, C.A. (1827). Aufzählung einiger in den östreichischen Ländern gefundenen neuen Gattungen und Arten von Algen, nebst ihrer Diagnostik und beigefügten Bemerkungen. Flora oder Botanische Zeitung, Regensburg 10(no. 40 of the second volume): 625-640.

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Description: Upright radially organized polysiphonous thalli, up to 15 cm high, with cylindrical axes and progressively narrower distal branches. Branch apices abruptly tapering; trichoblasts spirally arranged on axis, present on every segment but soon deciduous; parenchymatous cortication occurring to near branch apex. 6-8 pericentral cells. Lateral polysiphonous branches originate from trichoblast basal cell. Reproductive structures on ultimate branchlets. Tetrasporangia borne, 1 per segment, in a spiral sequence, commonly causing distortion of stichidia. Cystocarps spheroidal to urceolate, lateral on ultimate branchlets. Male capitula replacing trichoblasts, conical and sometimes with sterile tips.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-07-18 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Díaz-Tapia, P., Maggs, C.A., West, J.A. & Verbruggen, H. (2017). Analysis of chloroplast genomes and a supermatrix inform reclassification of the Rhodomelaceae (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 53(5): 920-937, 2 figs.

Comments: Low littoral to subtidal, Mediterranean; the Pacific Ocean at Palmyra Is. (Dawson 1959), The Galapagos Is. (Dawson 1963) and The Philippines (Vannajan and Trono 1978).

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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. 18 July 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024