Cystosphaera Skottsberg, 1907

Holotype species: Cystosphaera jacquinotii (Montagne) Skottsberg

Original publication and holotype designation: Skottsberg, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der subantarktischen und antarktischen Meeresalgen. I. Phaeophyceen. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 unter Leitung von Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld. Vol. 4: 1, Part 6. ( Eds), pp. 1-172. Stockholm: Lithographisches Institut des Generalstabs.

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Description: Thallus to 3 m long attached by conical holdfast with radiating, branched haptera. Short, cylindrical stipe to 8 mm diameter. Main axis bears opposite, flat lateral branches. Marginal air bladders develop in the axils of some laterals. Growth from an apical meristem. Thallus is parenchymatous and differentiated into a meristoderm of small cells with numerous chloroplasts, a cortex of larger, vacuolate cells and a filamentous medulla. Life history is diplontic. Sexual reproduction is oogamous. Individuals are monoecious with terete receptacles to 12 mm long and 4 mm broad, on margins of main axis and adaxial margins of laterals. Conceptacles are uni- or bisexual containing antheridia and/or oogonia. Oogonia measure 70-150 µm and contain one egg. Antheridia are ellipsoid, 15-21 x 10-12 µm on branched paraphyses.

Information contributed by: M. N. Clayton. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-21 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.

Comments: Cystosphaera is endemic to the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent islands.

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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. 21 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024