Meredithia J.Agardh, 1892
Lectotype species: Meredithia microphylla (J.Agardh) J.Agardh
Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1892). Analecta algologica. Lunds Universitets ÅrsSkrift, Andra Afdelningen, Kongl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Handlingar 28(6): 1-182, 3 pls.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. & Hauptfleisch, P. (1897). Gigartinaceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher hervorragender Fachgelehrten, Teil 1, Abteilung 2. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds), pp. 352-366. Leipzig: verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.
Description: Semi-peltate, auriculate blades, sometimes lobed, initially soft but becoming cartilaginous, borne ramisympodially on a terete, basally branched stipe. Perennial. Medulla filamentous, compact; stellate cells present. Cortex of subspherical cells, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Dioecious. Carpogonial branch 3-celled, borne singly on elongate, occasionally lobed supporting cell, which bears one or two subsidiary cells. Cystocarps initially embedded, becoming protuberant with age. Spermatangia superficial, in sori in center of blade. Tetrasporophyte heteromorphic, crustose. Tetrasporangia formed under short-day conditions and only at temperatures around 15ªC in a mucilaginous sorus, irregularly to regularly zonate, attached basally. Spore germination: within spore wall, resultant cell(s) producing one or more filamentous outgrowths, which become highly ramified to form a compact monostromatic disc.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-09 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Saunders, G.W., Huisman, J.M., Vergés, A., Kraft, G.T. & Le Gall, L. (2017). Phylogenetic analyses support recognition of ten new genera, ten new species and 16 new combinations in the family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie Algologie 38(2): 79-132, 126 figs.
Comments: Subtidal. Temperate waters of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
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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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