Liagorophila Yamada, 1944

Holotype species: Liagorophila endophytica Yamada

Currently accepted name for the type species: Acrochaetium yamadae (Garbary) Y.Lee & I.K.Lee

Original publication and holotype designation: Yamada, Y. (1944). Notes on some Japanese algae. X. Scientific Papers of the Institute of Algological Research, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University 3: 11-25, 8 figs.

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Description: Plants uniseriate filamentous, largely endophytic in other algae, only the reproductive structures emergent from the host. Thallus weakly heterotrichous, with a differentiation of long prostrate and short "erect" filaments. Cells with a centrally located or laterally displaced stellate chloroplast with a central pyrenoid. Plants monoecious. Spermatangia terminal on the cells of corymbose clusters. Carpogonia sessile or pedicellate, distinct carpogonial filament absent. Carpogonium dividing longitudinally after fertilization, producing short horizontal gonimoblasts. Carposporophyte small, globose, with terminal carposporangia; sterile involucre absent. Monosporangia produced in addition to sexual reproductive structures, terminal on the "erect" filaments. Tetrasporangia and complete life history unknown. The type species an endophyte in Liagora and other members of the Helminthocladiaceae, both in the (sub)tropical western Pacific and in the Caribbean. Some (semi-)endophytic species presently included in Acrochaetium may in actual fact be more closely related to Liagorophila, e. g. A. brebneri (Batters) Hamel (syn.: A. immersum (Rosenvinge) Hamel).

Information kindly contributed by H. Stegenga but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Acrochaetium.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Yoshida, T. (1998). Marine algae of Japan. pp. [1]-25, [1]-1222. Tokyo: Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co., Ltd. [in Japanese]

Comments: Some authors continue to recognise Liagorophila. See Wynne (2005: 80) for further information.

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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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