Leptonematella P.C.Silva, 1959, nom. cons.

Holotype species: Leptonematella fasciculata (Reinke) P.C.Silva

Original publication and holotype designation: Silva, P.C. (1959). Remarks on algal nomenclature. II. Taxon 8: 60-64.

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Description: Thalli forming tufts rarely more than 1 cm high, often epiphytic, consisting of a basal pseudodiscoid layer of branched radiating filaments and of rarely branched erect filaments with basal intercalary meristem. Cells of erect filaments barrel-shaped to rectangular and densely filled with plastids. Reproductive organs are rare elongate-pyriform to ovate unilocular sporangia formed on stalk cells laterally at the base of erect filaments and plurilocular sporangia formed by subdivision of terminal or intercalary cells of the erect filaments. Phaeophycean hairs absent. Life history direct from both plurilocular and unilocular sporangia. Distributed in arctic to warm-temperate waters of both hemispheres.

Information contributed by: A. F. Peters. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-10-19 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: 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 19 October 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 December 2024