Herpodiscus G.R.South, 1974

Holotype species: Herpodiscus durvilleae (Lindauer) G.R.South

Original publication and holotype designation: South, G.R. (1974). Herpodiscus gen. nov. and Herpodiscus durvilleae (Lindauer) comb. nov., a parasite of Durvillea antarctica (Chamisso) Hariot endemic to New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 4: 455-461.

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Description: Plants forming little tufts on parenchymatic brown algae and on seagrasses, occasionally epililithic. Filaments with apical growth, haplostichous, oligostichous or polystichous, with or without secondary transverse cell walls. Unilocular zoidangia solitary or in adaxial, lateral sympodia, plurilocular zoidangia on branched small laterals. Life cycle isomorphic, strongly heteromorphic or unknown.

Information contributed by: M.D. Guiry; emended by Draisma, Prud'homme van Reine and Kawai. 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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