Dictyota J.V.Lamouroux, 1809, nom. et typ. cons.
Holotype species: Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux
Original publication and holotype designation: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1809). Exposition des charactères du genre Dictyota, et tableu des espèces qu'il referme. Journal de Botanique (Desvaux) 2: 38-44.
Request PDFDescription: Thallus flattened, ribbon-like, erect or prostrate, with smooth, dentate, crenulate or ciliate margins; attachment by basal rhizoids or marginal rhizoidal processes scattered along the edges of the thallus or restricted to the base, stoloniferous holdfasts present or absent; branching dichotomous, anisotomous or alternate, rarely falcate; apices obtuse, rounded, apiculate or acute; phaeophycean hairs and superficial proliferations present or absent; thallus differentiated into a cortex and a medulla, the relative number of layers variable. Sporangia isolated, grouped in sori or surrounding a central hair tuft, lacking a conspicuous involucrum of sterile cells, subtended by a single stalk cell. Antheridia subtended by a single stalk cell, arranged in sori, surrounded by hyaline, unicellular paraphyses. Oogonia subtended by a stalk cell, arranged in sori.
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.
Comments: Cosmopolitan distribution.
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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 22 November 2024
