Endocladia J.Agardh, 1841
Holotype species: Endocladia vernicata J.Agardh
Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1841). In historiam algarum symbolae. Linnaea 15: 1-50, 443-457.
Request PDFDescription: Cylindrical, profusely subdichotomously to irregularly branched, with minute conical spines. Short and bushy. Uniaxial, with two pericentral cells, at right angles to each other. Inner cortical cells clavate, becoming smaller and more elliptical toward cuticle. Pit plugs lacking cap layers. Dioecious. Usually two two-celled carpogonial branches and a single, proximally situated auxiliary cell borne in a cluster of branches on an inner cortical cell. Carposporangia in chains. Most cells of carposporophyte maturing into carposporangia. Cystocarp projecting above thallus surface. Fusion cell and carpostome lacking. Spermatangia in short chains, superficial. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia irregularly cruciately divided, surrounded by unbranched sterile cells in a nemathecium.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2011-08-30 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: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.
Comments: Intertidal. Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Brazil; northeast Pacific Ocean: Alaska to Mexico.
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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. 30 August 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024
