Tiffaniella Doty & Meñez, 1960

Holotype species: Tiffaniella saccorhiza (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Doty & Meñez

Original publication and holotype designation: Doty, M.S. & Meñez, E.G. (1960). Tiffaniella, a new genus in the Ceramiales. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 79(2): 135-144, 14 figs.

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Description: Thallus filamentous, ecorticate, with prostrate and sparingly branched erect axes. Prostrate axes with frequent rhizoids, in some species these modified with digitate ends or swollen throughout. Erect filaments unbranched or dichotomously branched; cells multinucleate. Spermatangia arising in pedicellate heads of various shapes, usually borne on shortened laterals. Procarps on short fertile axes; subapical cell with 3 pericentral cells (supporting cell, fertile pericentral cell and sterile pericentral cell); supporting cell with a 4-celled carpogonial branch and a sterile terminal cell. Post-fertilisation 2 auxiliary cells cut off from each of the supporting and fertile pericentral cells. Cystocarps with carposporangia forming from 2 auxiliary cells fused to cells of the fertile axis, forming a T-shaped fusion cell; involucre lacking. Tetrasporangia tetrahedrally or polyhedrally (8–64 spores) divided.

Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-10-10 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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.

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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. 10 October 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 December 2024