Myriactula Kuntze, 1898

Holotype species: Myriactula pulvinata (Kützing) Kuntze

Original publication and holotype designation: Kuntze, O. (1898). Revisio generum plantarum. Vol. 3(3) pp. 1-576. Leipzig, London, Milan, New York, Paris: Arthur Felix, Dulau & Co., U. Hoepli, Gust. E. Stechert, Charles Klincksieck.

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Description: Thalli epiphytic to partly endophytic, minute cushions or tufts on hosts to 250 µm high and 2 mm in diameter. Basal rhizoidal filaments that grow adpressed to or slightly inside host surface issue erect filaments of unpigmented globose cells (may be lacking in some forms), several erect filaments forming a syntagmatic mass of medullary cells with a distal cortex of pigmented, short, curved or straight assimilatory filaments (paraphyses), hyaline hairs, and reproductive organs. Plurilocular sporangia uniseriate, in clusters , unilocular sporangia pyriform., both borne at the base of the paraphyses. Life history unknown. Widely distributed in cold and warm-temperate seas.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-10-15 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.

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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. 15 October 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024