Liebmannia J.Agardh, 1842
Holotype species: Liebmannia leveillei J.Agardh
Currently accepted name for the type species: Mesogloia vermiculata (Smith) S.F.Gray
Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1842). Algae maris Mediterranei et Adriatici, observationes in diagnosin specierum et dispositionem generum. pp. [i]-x, 1-164. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Fortin, Masson et Cie.
Request PDFDescription: Thallus erect, epilithic or epiphytic, filiform, branched attached to substratum with a minute discoid holdfast. Axis with leading filament which is a monopodium terminating in an assimilatory filament. Meristematic region above and among youngest ramifications. No internal downwardgrowing hyphae. Cortex composed of assimilatory filaments, hyaline hairs, and reproductive organs. Assimilatory filaments of one kind, curved, with cylindrical to barrel-shaped cells below and moniliform above. Unilocular sporangia globular to pyriform, plurilocular sporangia multiseriate, lanceolate. Both borne at base of assimilatory filaments within cortex. Life history not known. Distributed in the Azores, and on warm-temperate coasts of Europe including the Mediterranean.
Information kindly contributed by A. F. Peters but may now be outdated.
Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Mesogloia.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
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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