Veleroa E.Y.Dawson, 1944
Holotype species: Veleroa subulata E.Y.Dawson
Original publication and holotype designation: Dawson, E.Y. (1944). The marine algae of the Gulf of California. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 3(10): i-v, 189-432, pls 31-77.
Request PDFDescription: Thalli small, sparingly branched, monopodial and polysiphonous; attached by each segment with 4 pericentrals and a persistent pigmented trichoblast, borne in a 1/4 spiral on axis. Polysiphonous branches occasionally replace trichoblasts; trichoblasts unbranched or radially branched. Proximal main branches may have light cortication.
Procarps on the second segment of a trichoblast (Stewart 1989); advanced stages in cystocarp development and male plants unknown. Tetrasporangia in long spiral series (ca. 15) in distal segments of axes; developing one sporangium per segment but after maturity a second sporangium may be formed in some segments (Stewart 1989). Fertile tetrasporangial segments each bear a single, often simple, trichoblast.
Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2011-10-22 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.
Comments: Only known from S. California (San Diego Co.) and northern Pacific Mexico; subtidal. Known as a principal component of nests cultivated by ocean goldfish (garibaldi).
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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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