Microcoryne Strömfelt, 1888

Holotype species: Microcoryne ocellata Strömfelt

Original publication and holotype designation: Strömfelt, H.F.G. (1888). Algae novae quas ad litora Scandinaviae indagavit. Notarisia 9: 381-384, 1 table.

Description: Thalli epiphytic, globose, cylindrical or clavate, simple or forked, to 5 mm high. Multiaxial thallus construction, consisting of a medulla of several syntagmatic erect filaments which are unpigmented, large-celled and di- or trichotomously branched, and a cortex formed by pigmented assimilatory filaments, hyaline hairs and plurilocular sporangia. Asimilatory filaments curved, below with rectangular cells, above becoming barrel-shaped to moniliform. Plurilocular sporangia uniseriate, straight, formed within cortex on supporting cells of assimilatory filaments. Unilocular sporangia unknown. Life history direct. Endemic to the cold-temperate part of the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. 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.

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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 22 November 2024